Ebatinca organizes the 40th edition of NA-MIC Project Week
From January 29 to February 2, 2024 will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria the 40th edition of the NA-MIC Project Week, an international hackathon for projects based on the medical imaging software 3D Slicer. During the week the projects will be presented and worked on together, allowing networking between the different teams. It is not a competition, but a great collaborative event within the philosophy of Open Source software. The theme of the projects ranges from review of the current state of the art in medical image processing, visualization techniques for virtual/augmented reality, image guidance systems, segmentation, cloud processing and artificial intelligence. The latter has undergone significant progress, which has led to an increase in the number of projects presented in this category.participants from the five continents, to mention some of them from previous editions:
- America: from MIT in Boston (USA), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (USA), Stanford, (USA), École de technologie supérieure (Canada), Queen’s University (Canada), University of São Paulo (Brazil), Autonomous University of the State of Mexico
- Oceania: University of Western Australia
- Asia: 3D Surgical (India), Shanghai 6th Hospital (China)
- Africa: Cheikh Anta Diop University (Senegal), Fann Hospital of Dakar (Senegal), University of Nouakchott Al Aasriya (Mauritania)
- Europe: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Spain).
Since 2022 it has been possible to attend Project Week both in person and online, which has increased the number of participants, and the number of countries has been increasing. The current record was set by the 38th edition, also held in Gran Canaria, with 30 countries and 251 attendees. This is the fifth time that a Project Week is held in Gran Canaria, being the island its European venue for the winter event.
