Internal Workshop of the VL-e Medical Subprogram (SP1.3)
9 November 2006

Program

The program consisted of presentations about on-going work, vision for VL-e medical by representatives of all partners and closing panel. See Proceedings.

11:00 Welcome with coffee/tea
11:15 VL-e Medical: Overview Activities and Mid-term Evaluation Silvia Olabarriaga, IvI/AMC-UvA
11:35 Future applications of grid computing at the 3.0 Tesla research facility Aart Nederveen, AMC
11:55 Distributed Workflow Management System for Automated Medical Image Analysis and Logistics Jeroen Snel, AMC
12:15 Grid Architecture for Medical Applications Jasper van Leeuwen, Philips Research
12:35 Analysis of MR Diffusion Tensor Images at 3 Tesla Matthan Caan, AMC + TU Delft
12:55 lunch
13:45 Fitting a single equivalent-current-dipole model to MEG data with exhaustive search optimization is a simple, practical and very robust method given the speed of modern computers Keith Cover, VUMC
14:05 Brain reading: decoding mental states of humans from functional neuroimaging data Sennay Ghebreab, IvI-UvA
14:25 Interactive Visualization Michael Scarpa, IvI-UvA
14:45 Problem Solving Environment for Medical Image Analysis Ketan Maheshwari, IvI-UvA
15:05 tea/coffee break
15:25 Vision of AMC for VL-e Medical Kees Grimbergen
15:35 Vision of VUMC for VL-e Medical Bob van Dijk
15:45 Vision of Philips Research for VL-e Medical Henk Obbink
15:55 Vision of Philips Medical for VL-e Medical Ruud de Boer
16:05 Panel: Self-evaluation of VL-e medical Bob van Dijk, Ruud de Boer, Henk Obbink, Robert Belleman, Ard den Heeten, Kees Grimbergen, Silvia Olabarriaga (moderator)
16:35 Closing Silvia Olabarriaga
16:40 Borrel all

Summary

The internal workshop of the VL-e medical subprogram (SP1.3) took place in Amsterdam on November 9th. In total 28 persons from various organizations attended the workshop - see list of participants. The meeting was evaluated as useful by several participants.

The presentations illustrated activities related to image acquisition, image analysis (DTI MRI, functional MRI and MEG), workflow management and interactive visualization. The current status of these activities shows that a large step forward has been taking in vlemed since its start in 2004. Several "problem-solving environments" for medical image analysis have been developed and are currently used by a growing community of end-users. Some applications are under evaluation in a clinical setting. The prospects of VL-e medical fulfilling the goals and expectations set-up for the VL-e project are good. Some issues raised during the day need special attention for the success of this project: