Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

general chair, scientific chair

• N. Ayache organized a new course on the "Personalized Digital Patient" at Collège de France for the annual chair on "Informatics and Computer Sciences". He gave 9 lectures and invited 26 lecturers including H. Delingette and X. Pennec from the Asclepios team.

member of the organizing committee

• X. Pennec was co-organizer of the MICCAI workshop STIA’14 (Spatio-Temporal Image Analysis for longitudinal and time series image data), which was held at Cambridge, MA (USA) on September 18;

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2014 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart and a co-organiser of the UCL Centre for Cardiovascular Imaging and Inria Asclepios Project collaborative workshop: Translational Applications of Cardiovascular Models.

Scientific events selection

member of the conference program committee

• X. Pennec was program committee member of the MICCAI 2014 conference (Cambridge, MA, USA), area chair for ICPR 2014 conference (Stockholm, Sweden), and area chair of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI’15).

• H. Delingette was program committee member of the RFIA 2014 conference, the conference on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'14), the International Symposium on BioMedical Simulation (ISBMS 2014).

reviewer

• H. Delingette was reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'12), the conference on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'14), the International Symposium on BioMedical Simulation (ISBMS 2014), the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention(MICCAI 2014), the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2014).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the MICCAI 2014 and EMBS conferences.

• X. Pennec was reviewer for the sixth Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'14); the workshop on computational diffusion MRI (CDMRI'14); the MICCAI 2014 Workshop on Medical Computer Vision (MCV’14); the 6th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR’2014); the 24th biennial international conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2015).

Journal

member of the editorial board

• N. Ayache is the co-founder and the Co-Editor in Chief with J. Duncan (Professor at Yale) of Medical Image Analysis (http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/620983/editorialboard ). This scientific journal was created in 1996 and is published by Elsevier.

• N. Ayache is Associated Editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (http://www.ieee-tmi.org/ ) and a member of the editorial board of the following journals: Medical Image Technology (Japanese journal) and Journal of Computer Assisted Surgery (Wiley).

• H. Delingette is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier).

• I. Strobant is editorial coordinator for Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier (since october 2001) and editorial assistant for IEEE Transactions on Medical Image Analysis, (since october 2001).

• X. Pennec is a member of the editorial board of the journal Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier), of the International Journal of Computer Vision (Springer), of the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), and of the Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision (JMIV).

reviewer

• H. Delingette was reviewer for the following journals : Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Biomedical Engineering, The Visual Computer, Expert Review of Medical Devices, Journal of Fluids and Structures.

• X. Pennec was reviewer for the following journals : International Statistical Review (ISR), Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging (TMI), NeuroImage (NIMG), Symmetry, a chapter of a Springer book, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis (PAMI), Int. journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Journal of mathematical imaging and vision (IJCV), SIAM journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS).

• M. Sermesant was reviewer for the following journals: Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Computers in Biology and Medecine.

Invited Lectures

We only list invited talks here. Please refer to general references for regular participation in conferences with a submission process.

• Nicholas Ayache gave the following invited lectures:

  • Inaugural lecture at Collège de France on 10 April 2014 entitled "From Medical Images to the Digital Patient"

  • Keynote lecture at the ICIP 2015 conference (Oct. 28 2014)

  • Keynote lecture at Sanofi (Nov. 28 2014)

  • Invited lectures at the "Forum of Laureates" (Dec. 11 2014).

• Hervé Delingette gave the following invited lectures:

  • at the Deformable Object Manipulation international workshop held in Lyon (Japan).

  • at the Medical Imaging Summer School in Favignana (Italy)

  • at a Seminar in College de France within the chair "Informatique et sciences numériques" of Nicholas Ayache on the personalized digital patient, Paris, May 6th, 2014.

  • the Summer School on Medical Simulation in Lyon (France).

• Xavier Pennec gave the following invited lectures:

  • séminaire de théorie du contrôle, Univ. Toulon, Decembre 11, 2014.

  • Int. workshop on Geometry of Information and Optimization (GIO), Bordeaux, December 4-5, 2014.

  • Geometrical Models in Vision workshop, semester on Geometry, Analysis and Dynamics on Sub-Riemannian Manifolds, Institut Henry Poincarré, Paris - October 22nd-24th, 2014.

  • the Medical Imaging Summer School (MISS’14) in Favignana (Italy), July 2014.

  • Symposium on Statistical Shape models & Applications (Shape 2014), Delémont, Swiss, June 11-13 2013. Keynote speaker.

  • Seminar at College de France within the chair "Informatique et sciences numériques" of Nicholas Ayache on the personalized digital patient, Paris, May 13, 2014.

  • MICCAI PC Workshop, Cambridge, MA, USA, May 16, 2014.

  • Séminaires du Laboratoire de Mécanique, Lille Univ., March 20 2014.

• Maxime Sermesant gave invited lectures at the Frontiers Conference on Pediatrics and Congenital Heart Diseases, at the European Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, and the opening lecture at the Science and Technology Department Day of Bordeaux University.

Other Scientific Animation Activities

• Nicholas Ayache a member of the "Comité de la Recherche Biomédicale en Santé Publique (CRBSP)" of the Nice hospitals since 2008. He was invited to Tokyo, Japan in February 2014 to evaluate a national program on "Computational Anatomy" funded by the MEXT.

• Xavier Pennec is a member of the MICCAI Society Board of Directors, of the Doctoral follow-up Committee (CSD) at Inria Sophia Antipolis, and in charge of the relationships of Inria-Sophia with the Nice University Hospital (CHU). In 2014, he was a member of the jury of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF) for their 2014 call on imaging.

• H. Delingette is a member of the local committee in charge of the scientific selection of visiting scientists (Comité NICE) and the local committee on the immersive platform. He was an evaluator for the integrated European project ARTREAT, for the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of the Government of Chile (CONICYT). He was involved in the redaction of the application of the Unversité Cote d'Azur to the IDEX bid.

• M. Sermesant acted as an evaluator for the the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is a member of the Medical Simulation Working Group of Aviesan and of the CCC (local committee in charge of the selection of funding for courses and conferences organisation). He organized two hackfests for the medInria software.