Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• X. Pennec organized a workshop on the Geometry of shapes Workshop (Math in the Mine) from June 26 to July 2, 2016, at la Minière de Vallauria, Alpes Maritimes, FR.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2016 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM 2016), which was held in Athens, Greece, on October 17, 2016. He also co-organised the Cardiac Imaging Research Day at the French Radiologists Conference.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• X. Pennec was a member of the program committee of RFIA RFP 2016 (Reconnaissance de Formes et Perception) (Clermont-Ferrand, FR), the 2nd Int. W. on Differential Geometry in Computer Vision Diff-CVML'16, Las Vegas, USA), and of the Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR 2016, Las-Vegas, USA).

• H. Delingette was program committee member of the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2016), the MICCAI 2016 workshop on Simulation and Synthesis of Medical Imaging (SASHIMI'16), and the Eurographics conference on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM'16).

Reviewer

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'16), the international conference on computer-aided interventions (IPCAI'16), the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2016), the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016), the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the MICCAI 2016 conference.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2016), the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2016) and the int. Workshop on Representation, analysis and recognition of shape and motion FroM Imaging data (RFMI 2016).

Journal

Member of the 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 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).

• 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: Biometrika, Chaos, Proceedings on the London Mathematical Society (PLMS), SIAM journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis (PAMI), NeuroImage (NIMG).

• 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:

  • To honor Michel Lazdunski, Nice Hospital, January 2016

  • Science and Society event, Toulouse, May 2016

  • Institut Universitaire de France, Annual Event, Rennes, June 2016

  • Connected Health, Monaco, June 2016

  • SSIMA Summer School, Bucharest, July 2016

  • MISS Summer School, Favigna, August 2016

  • Academy of Sciences , Sept 2016

  • IHU Liryc, Bordeaux, Sept 2016

• Hervé Delingette gave the following invited lectures at the:

  • MICCAI 2016 Programme Committee Workshop on May 27th in London.

  • Biomedical Image Analysis Seminar at University of Basel on November 22nd.

• Xavier Pennec gave invited lectures at the following events:

  • Colloquium of the Dieudonné Lab (LJAD), Nice University, October 10, 2016.

  • VIth Int. W. on Representation, analysis and recognition of shape and motion FroM Imaging data (RFMI 2016), Sidi Bou Said village, Tunisia, October 27-29 2016.

  • International Workshop on Geometry, PDE's and Lie Groups in Image Analysis, Eindhoven (NL) 24-26 August 2016.

  • Workshop on Geometry and Stochastics of Nonlinear, Functional and Graph Data, Bornholm (DK), 15-19 August 2016.

  • 12th IEEE IVMSP Workshop 2016, Bordeaux (FR), July 11-12, 2016.

  • Statistical Analysis of Manifold-Valued Data and Beyond: Nottingham workshop, 4-6 April 2016, UK.

  • Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (DE), 24-30 January 2016.

• Maxime Sermesant gave an invited lecture at the Virtual Physiological Human Summer School, Barcelona.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• H. Delingette is a member of the MICCAI Society Board of Directors from 2016 to 2019.

• 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 Nagoya, Japan in February 2016 to evaluate a national program on the "Multidisciplinary Computational Anatomy Initiative" funded by the MEXT. He has been a member of the Research Council of the "Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM)" since January 2015.

• Xavier Pennec was an evaluator for the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS, Belgium, the Alpes Grenoble Innovation Recherche (AGIR) projects, and for the PhD fellowships of Ecole Normale cachan.

• H. Delingette was an evaluator for the ECOS Sud France-Chili program, for the European Research Concil, for the Comet program in Austria (FWF), for the International Graduate School of Science and Engineering (IGSSE) of the Technical University of Munich.

• M. Sermesant is a member of the Medical Simulation Working Group of Aviesan.

Research Administration

• Nicholas Ayache is a member of the scientific council of the Ile de France region since 2016.

• Xavier Pennec is a member of the Doctoral follow-up Committee (CSD) at Inria Sophia Antipolis, of the the "Comité de la Recherche Biomédicale en Santé Publique (CRBSP)" of the Nice hospitals, in charge of the relationships of Inria-Sophia with the Nice University Hospital (CHU), of and the board of the Ecole doctorale STIC.

• 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.