We are very excited to announce the second hackathon event of the Emission Tomography Standardization Initiative (ETSI) planned to be held in Tampa, FL, USA, on 3rd- 4th November, 2024, right after the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (26 October – 2 November 2024).
This event is supported by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the Collaborative Computational Project in Synergistic Reconstruction for Biomedical Imaging (CCP SynerBI). Additional sponsors will soon be announced.
Location: The event will take place at a conference hotel site (soon to be announced) close to the Tampa Convention Center at downtown Tampa, FL, USA.
For more details, subscribe to ETSInitiative.org to learn first about this event and other ETSI activities or contact Kris Thielemans and Nicolas Karakatsanis. A dedicated page about this hackathon event with more details about exact location, registration, and preliminary agenda will also be coming up soon.
The primary objectives of the 2nd ETSI hackathon event are:
- to continue raising awareness and educating the nuclear medical imaging sciences field regarding the need for raw emission data standardization
- to establish and grow the momentum for defining usable raw emission data standards as built from last year’s 1st ETSI hackathon and its recently formed ETSI developers’ community,
- to update on the latest data elements and features of the PET ETSI raw data (PETSIRD) and discuss future directions and priorities for ETSI data standards, as well as
- to advance and expand on the set of characteristic use cases developed and demonstrated during last year’s 1st ESTI hackathon, including validated code libraries supported by the latest Yardl code building library.
This event will focus again this year on ETSI’s PETSIRD standardized format for PET raw data. Nevertheless, the produced use case tools may constitute a basis for later developing respective use case tools for other types of emission tomography raw data standards such as SPECT and planar imaging raw data standards.
ETSI initiative is welcoming anyone interested to participate in its next hackathon event. A growing community of emission raw data standards developers has been formed since last year’s 1st ETSI hackathon with support from both academic sites and industry vendors. We expect this community to continue expanding building upon a strong interest and incentive across the fields of nuclear medicine and imaging sciences for standardized and equitable access to the deepest levels of information present in acquired medical imaging data to maximize their diagnostic and theranostic potential exploiting the latest data science tools.
This can be a unique opportunity to be among the first to set the future standards for standardized, democratized and vendor-independent usage of open raw data in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging research community. Don’t hesitate to contact Kris Thielemans or Nicolas Karakatsanis for any questions or further details.
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