NA-MIC Project Weeks

Welcome to the web page for the 44th Project Week!

This event will take place January 26th - 30th, 2026 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, in person. More details will be posted on this page as the event approaches. If you have any questions, you can contact the organizers.

Location

• Recommended hotels (special rates) and maps
  • NH Imperial Playa Map
    • Booking: Discounted hotel rooms booking link
• Transportation from the airport to the city (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria):
  • Taxi (line at the airport)
  • Bus line 60
  • Map: Airport - San Telmo bus station
• The city has good bus/taxi service and is also walkable.

Preparation meetings

Preparations meetings will be at 10 AM EDT and start Tuesday, November 18 2025. Zoom Link

Registration

• All participants have to register using the form
• Remote participation will not be possible at this project week
• Registration costs 480€ (increases to 525€ after December 21), and includes coffee breaks, snacks, and lunch at the hotel for the entire week

Important: The deadline for registration and payment of the fee is Jan 16th. If you have problems with the payment or registration, contact namic@ebatinca.com.

Discord

The Discord application is used to communicate between team members and organize activities before and during Project Week. Please join the Project Week Discord server as soon as possible and explore its functionality before the workshop. For more information on the use of Discord before and during Project Week, please visit this page.

Agenda

How to add this calendar to your own?

Breakout sessions

Projects

To learn how to create or update project pages, please refer to the contributing project pages section.

The PW44_2026_GranCanaria event has a total of 7 projects.

VR/AR and Rendering

1. Simple custom GPU accelerated filtering and volume rendering pipeline (Simon Drouin, Rafael Palomar)

Segmentation / Classification / Landmarking

1. Visualization of Vessels of the Brainstem from sMRI Data (Zora Kikinis)

2. Pedicle screw annotation for Cornerstone3D (Martin Bellehumeur)

3. Automated Segmentation of Pelvic Bones from Diverse CT Datasets (Hamid Alavi, Gabrielle Tuijthof, Nico Venrdonschot, Malte Asseln)

Quantification and Computation

1. SlicerModalityConverter Extension - addition of new models and use case examples (Ciro Benito Raggio, Paolo Zaffino, Maria Francesca Spadea)

Cloud / Web

1. Scene mirroring on the web with trame-slicer (Thibault Pelletier)

Infrastructure

1. Cast - A Standard for Real-Time Front-End Integration of Healthcare Application (Martin Bellehumeur, Steve Pieper, Andras Lasso)

Uncategorized

This section lists projects that either have no category assigned, are assigned to the “Uncategorized” category, or are assigned to a different category than the ones listed above. If you are unable to find a category that is suitable for your project, or believe that a specific category is missing, please discuss it with the organizers.

Registrants

Do not add your name to this list below. It is maintained by the organizers based on your registration.

List of registered participants so far (names will be added here after processing registrations):

1. Steve Pieper, Isomics, Inc., USA
2. Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
3. Zora Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
4. Elise Donszelmann-Lund, McGill University, Canada
5. Martin Bellehumeur, Bellehumeur Engineering, Germany
6. Simon Drouin, École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
7. Attila Nagy, University of Szeged, Hungary
8. Juan Ruiz-Alzola, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
9. Lina Bucher, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany
10. Thibault Pelletier, Kitware Europe, France
11. Csaba Pintér, Ebatinca SL, Spain
12. Attila Tanács, University of Szeged, Hungary
13. Hamid Alavi, University of Twente, The Netherlands
14. Ciro Benito Raggio, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
15. Francesca Spadea, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
16. Andras Lasso, Queen’s University, Canada
17. Isabel Frolick, McGill University, Canada
18. Deepa Krishnaswamy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
19. Domenico Riggio, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
20. Álvaro Falcón Santana, Instituto de Microelectrónica Aplicada (IUMA) - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain
21. Tina Kapur, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
22. Gabor Fichtinger, Queen’s University, Canada
23. Gabriella d’Albenzio, School of Computing, Queen’s University, Canada
24. Alejandro Rodríguez Moreno, Ebatinca SL, Spain
25. Paolo Zaffino, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
26. Lorena Romeo, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
27. Ebrahim Ebrahim, Kitware, Inc. USA
28. Elena Scalbi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
29. Lena Giebeler, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
30. Carlos Allende Prieto, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain

Statistics

Organizers

Local organizing committee

• Juan Ruiz-Alzola, PhD, Professor of Imaging Technologies, director of the Grupo de Tecnología Médica y Audiovisual (GTMA), Instituto Universitario de Investigaciones Biomédicas y Sanitarias (IUIBS), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
• Csaba Pintér, PhD, EBATINCA
• The EBATINCA team. For inquiries please send email to namic@ebatinca.com

Global Project Week organizing committee

• @tkapur (Tina Kapur, PhD),
• @drouin-simon (Simon Drouin, PhD)
• @rafaelpalomar (Rafael Palomar, PhD)
• @piiq (Theodore Aptekarev)
• @sjh26 (Sam Horvath, PhD)

History

Please read about our experience in running these events since 2005: Increasing the Impact of Medical Image Computing Using Community-Based Open-Access Hackathons: the NA-MIC and 3D Slicer Experience.