Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

• X. Pennec was general chair of the Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy (MFCA 2015) workshop, which was held in conjunction with MICCAI at Munich, Germany, on October 9, 2015.

Member of organizing committees

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2015 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM 2015), which was held in Munich, Germany, on October 9, 2015.

Scientific events selection

Member of conference program committees

• X. Pennec was area chair of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2015, New-York, NY, USA), and program committee member of the conference Geometric Sciences of Information (GSI'2015, Palaiseau, France).

• H. Delingette was program committee member of the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention(MICCAI 2015), the FIMH 2015 conference, and the conference on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'15). He was an associate editor for the conference IEEE EMBC 2015.

Reviewer

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'15), the international conference on computer-aided interventions (IPCAI'15) the conference on Virtual Reality Interactions and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS'15), the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2015), the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015), the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2015).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the MICCAI 2015 and FIMH 2015 conferences.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the 24th biennial international conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2015) and the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2015).

Journal

Member of editorial boards

• 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 - Reviewing activities

• H. Delingette was a 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, Computers in Biology and Medicine and Journal of Fluids and Structures.

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

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Medical Image Analysis and Computers in Biology and Medecine.

Invited talks

• Nicholas Ayache gave the following invited lectures:

  • Symposium "Les savoirs de l’ENS", Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris 2015.

  • First conference CYBERMED, Juan-les-Pins, 2015.

  • Forum Chili-France, La société intelligente, Paris 2015.

  • Conference ENIT organized by the Collège de France in Tunisia, Tunis, 2015.

  • Journées françaises des doubles cursus, Paris 2015.

  • Institut du cerveau et de la moelle épinière, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris 2015.

  • Keynote at the Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy Initiative, Fukuoka, Japan 2015.

• Hervé Delingette gave the following invited lectures at the:

  • IHU Strasbourg Scientific Day on June 3rd in Strasbourg.

  • Biomed Summer School in Paris in July 2015.

  • Metice workshop in Bordeaux in September 2015.

• Xavier Pennec gave the following invited lectures:

  • Schrödinger institute Programme on Infinite-Dimensional Riemannian Geometry with Applications to Image Matching and Shape Analysis, Vienna, February 2015: a one week course and one workshop presentation.

  • 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings (AMS/MAA): AMS Special Session on Differential Geometry and Statistics, San Antonio, Texas, January 2015.

  • Center for Health Sciences, SRI international, Menlo Park, USA, June 4 2015.

  • Statistics Department Seminar, Stanford University, April 21, 2015.

• Maxime Sermesant gave an invited lecture at Computing in Cardiology Conference, in Nice September 2015.

Leadership within the scientific community

• Xavier Pennec is a member of the MICCAI Society Board of Directors from 2012 to 2015.

• Nicholas Ayache is a member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of Mechanics and Informatics.

Scientific expertise

• Nicholas Ayache was invited in Tokyo, Japan in February 2015 to evaluate a national program on the "Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy Initiative" funded by the MEXT.

• Xavier Pennec was a member of the Member of the panel for the joint FLAG-ERA Joint / HBM flagship Transnational Call (JTC), 2015.

• H. Delingette was an evaluator for the ECOS Sud France-Chili program. He was involved in the redaction of the second application of the Unversité Côte d'Azur to the IDEX bid.

• M. Sermesant is a member of the Medical Simulation Working Group of Aviesan. He organized two hackfests for the medInria software.

Research administration

• Nicholas Ayache has been a member of the "Comité de la Recherche Biomédicale en Santé Publique (CRBSP)" of the Nice hospitals since 2008. He has been a member of the Research Council of the "Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM)" since January 2015.

• Xavier Pennec is a member 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).

• 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.

• M. Sermesant is a member of the local committee in charge of the selection of funding for courses and conferences organisation and of the local organisation for scientific presentations in high schools.