Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

Member of the Organizing Committees

• X. Pennec was co-chair of the MICCAI 2017 workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy MFCA 2017 which was held in Quebec, Canada on September 14, 2017 and co-organiser of the Conference on Topological and Geometrical Structure of Information, held at CIRM Luminy (FR) on Aug.28 - Sept. 1 2017.

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2017 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM 2017), which was held in Quebec City, Octobre 10, 2017.

• H. Delingette was a member of the organizing committee of the two scientific days at Inria Sophia Antipolis (July 6th and Dec 4th) presenting the activities of the UCA academy on "Networks, Information and Digital Society".

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• X. Pennec was a member of the paper selection committe of the Conference Information processing in Medical Images (IPMI 2017) held at Boone, NC, USA, June 25-30 2017; area chair of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging ISBI 2017; member of the scientific committee of the 3rd conference on Geometric Science of Information GSI2017, Novembre 7-9 2017, Paris (France).

• H. Delingette was program committee member of the conference on the MICCAI 2017 workshop on Simulation and Synthesis of Medical Imaging (SASHIMI'17).

Reviewer

• M. Lorenzi was a reviewer for the conferences Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2017), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2018), IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017-18), Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2017).

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the ICCV International Workshop on Manifold Learning: from Euclid to Riemann (MANIFLEARN2017) and the 3rd CVPR International Workshop on DIFFerential Geometry in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (DIFF-CVML 2017).

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'17), the international conference Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart (FIMH 2017),the international conference on computer-aided interventions (IPCAI'17), the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2017), the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the MICCAI 2017 and FIMH 2017 conferences.

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 journal. 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).

• M. Lorenzi is a member of the editorial board of the journal Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group); he is also member of the Board of Statisticians of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (IOS Press).

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• M. Lorenzi was a reviewer for the following journals: Neurobiology of Aging, Alzheimer's and Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, NeuroImage, International Journal of Computer Vision, Journal of Mathematical Image and Vision, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Human Brain Mapping, Scientific Reports, Neural Computation.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the following journals: Proceedings on the London Mathematical Society (PLMS), Journal of mathematical imaging and vision (JMIV), Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), NeuroImage (NIMG), Foundations of Computational Mathematics (FoCM), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), SIAM journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS), Medical Image Analysis (MedIA).

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the following journals: Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computers in Biology and Medicine.

• 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

• M. Lorenzi was invited as lecturer at the Mathematical Models In Biomedical Imaging Summer School, organized by the University of Granada, Spain, on July 2017.

• X. Pennec was a keynote speaker of the 3rd Int. W on Differential geometry in Comp. Vis. and Machine Learning (DIFF-CVML), Hawaii, USA, 21 July 2017 and at the Computational Brain Connectivity Mapping Winter School Workshop CoBCoM, November 20-24 2017, Juan-les-Pins, France. He was also invited to the MIT CSAIL Seminar series, Cambridge, MA, September 8 2017 and an Imaging Genetics Center Seminar at USC, Marina del Rey, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 19 July 2017.

• H. Delingette was a keynote speaker at the Euromech conference in Lille, an invited speaker at the GDR Mamovi in Lyon, at the Computer Vision Seminar at UPF in Barcelona.

• M. Sermesant was a keynote speaker at the FIMH conference in Toronto, and an invited speaker at the VT/VF Symposium in Berlin, and the TRM Forum in Lugano.

• N. Ayache gave the following plenary invited talks in 2017:

  • From Cardiac Images to Digital Hearts ; Inria 50th anniversary, Paris

  • From Medical Images to Digital Patients, Inria 50th anniversary, Sophia,

  • Important MICCAI contributions of the past 20 years, MICCAI, Québec,

  • Le patient numérique, Académie Nationale de Chirurgie, Paris,

  • Images, informatique et médecine : Institut Mondor de recherche biomédicale, Créteil.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• H. Delingette is a member of the MICCAI Society Board of Directors.

• Nicholas Ayache is a member of the French Academy of Sciences in the section of Mechanics and Informatics. He was elected a free member of the French Academy of Surgery on 6 Dec. 2017. He became an officer of the order of the "Palmes Académiques" on 14 Jul. 2017.

Scientific Expertise

• Xavier Pennec was an evaluator for the European Research Concil (ERC) and the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR).

• M. Lorenzi was reviewer of the granting agencies ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France) and EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK).

• H. Delingette was an evaluator for the European Research Concil, for the Research Council of KU Leuven.

• M. Sermesant was an evaluator for the Aquitaine region, the Dutch adn the Swiss research councils.

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

Research Administration

• Xavier Pennec is co-director and at the board of the Ecole doctorale STIC of Université Côte d'Azur. He 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 and in charge of the relationships of Inria-Sophia with the Nice University Hospital (CHU).

• Marco Lorenzi is is a member of the local steering committee of the technological platforms (Comités Scientifiques de Pilotage des Plateformes) in charge of Cluster, Grid, Cloud, and HPC technologies.

• Hervé 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 is the coordinator of the Academy of excellence on "Networks, Information and Digital Society" at the Université Côte d'Azur.