Announcing the 3rd ETSI Hackathon (virtual-only): July 14-18th 2025

On behalf of the ETSI leadership, we are very excited to announce the 3rd ETSI hackathon (virtual-only this time) event that will take place on July 14th-18th 2025.

To allow us to promptly prepare for this event, we ask you to please complete your registration by June 13th. Registration is a pre-requisite for participation in this hackathon. All important instructions to attend this hackathon online will be directly provided to the registered participants.

In the regsitration you may enter your contact details, preferred developer tasks category and the time zone from which you plan to attend. Based on your preferences, you will be assigned to a subgroup of developers where you will all decide the best time to participate during that 1-week period. More details can be found in the event’s website with regular updates as we come closer to the event date.

The main scope of this hackathon event is to continue the development of meaningful and practical use cases for the PETSIRD standard since our last ETSI hackathon in Tampa, utilizing all latest features and elements definitions added to the standard over the last 6 months.

The focus in this event will be the completion of the in-silico (i.e. simulated) demonstration of the utility of PETSIRD through an end-to-end simulation study of realistic cylindrical and brain PET phantom data including:

  • Simulation (e..g ROOT)-to-PETSIRD listmode data format convertor tools
  • synthesis of PETSIRD data from known activity distributions,
  • performance of basic operations on PETSIRD data,
  • visualization of scanner geometry and extraction of statistics from PETSIRD data alone and
  • independent quantitative PET image reconstructions from PETSIRD data alone using existing open-source image reconstruction software libraries.

All important details regarding the exact time slots for each developers subgroup, and the agenda will be provided soon to the registered participants. For regular updates please subscribe to ETSInitiative.org or visit the 3rd ETSI Hackathon (virtual-only) official webpage.