Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• X. Pennec organized the Geometric Statistics workshop in Toulouse from August 30 to September 5 2019, in the framwork of the Associated team GeomStats with Stanford, the ERC G-Statistics and the thematic semester "Statistics with Geometry and Topology" of the CIMI Labex of Toulouse. The workshop featured 6 hours courses by Susan Holmes and Xavier Pennec and talks by Nina Miolane and Yann Thanwerdas.

• N. Ayache organized the scientific program of the conference "The Académie des Sciences in Nice and Sophia Antipolis" in June 20-21 2019.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• X. Pennec was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2019 Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Computational Anatomy (MFCA 2019), which was held in Shenzen in October 2019 [57].

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2019 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM 2019), which was held in Shenzhen, October 2019.

• H. Delingette co-organized the meeting on "Digital Sciences & Technologies" on April 3rd as well as the meeting on "Digital Sobriety" on Dec. 2nd as part of the scientific animation of the UCA Academy of Excellence on Digital Sciences. He was also member of the organizing committee of the 2019 SophIA summit in Sophia Antipolis that was held in Sophia Antipolis from Nov. 20-22nd.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• X. Pennec was a program committee member and session chair of the Geometric Sciences of Information conference GSI' 2019 at ENAC in Toulouse.

Reviewer

• M. Lorenzi was a reviewer for the conferences Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2019), Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2019), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020), Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI 2019).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2019), the MICCAI workshop STACOM and the Computing in Cardiology conference.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2019) and for Information Processing in Medical Images (IPMI 2019), the 35th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (CG Week 2019).

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'19), the international conference on computer-aided interventions (IPCAI'19), the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

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

• 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).

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

• 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).

• I. Strobant is editorial coordinator for Medical Image Analysis, Elsevier (since october 2001).

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, Scientific Reports.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the Journal of Computational Dynamics, Annals of Statistics, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, Linear Algebra and its Applications, Information geometry, Medical Image Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Machine Learning Research, 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.

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the following journals: Medical Image Analysis (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

Invited Talks

• M. Lorenzi was invited to give a lecture to: Nice Genomic Winter School, Dec 18th; Imaging-Genetics Winter School, University of Verona, Nov 25th-29th; SophIA Summit of Sophia Antipolis, Nov 19th; International Tau Workshop, Geneva University Hospital, Nov 11th; International Meeting "The future of Medicine Starts Now", Menarini Foundation, Genoa, Italy, Sep 27th; European Glaucoma Society Meeting, Bordeaux, Aug 30th; Big@UCA Summer School, Nice, Jun 26th; Lacassagne Hospital, Jun 20th; VUmc Hospital, Amsterdam, May 23rd; Collége de France, Paris, Apr 23rd; UCA Maison de la Simulation, Apr 18th; International Conference ISBI 2019, Venice, Apr 9th; UPF University, Barcelona, Feb 7th;

• H. Delingette was a keynote speaker at the University of Twente (NL) seminar on Nov 6th, at the regional Otology meeting "ORL PACA" on June 15th 2019, and at the Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging workshop in Shenzhen, China, on Oct 13th.

• X. Pennec gave the following plenary invited talks:

  • IPAM program on Geometry and Learning from Data in 3D and Beyond (Los Angeles, USA, 02/04).

  • CARS 2019 conference in Rennes (19/06).

  • the Academie des Sciences en région in Nice and Sophia Antipolis (21/06).

  He also gave invited lectures and seminars at: Copenhagen University (DK 18/03); the Institut Mathematique de Toulouse (27/05); the ENUMATH 2019 conference held in Egmond aan Zee (NL, 04/10); LJK-Deterministic Models and Algorithms: EDP-AIRSEA-CVGI Seminar, Univ Grenoble (16/12).

• M. Sermesant was an invited speaker at the European Heart Rhythm Association conference (18/03), eHealth Monaco (27/03), Cardiac Electromechanics workshop (15/04), EuroCMR (03/05), CVPR Medical Imaging workshop (16/05), Innovation Alzheimer summer school (26/06), Académie de Médecine working group on AI & Healthcare (10/09), Inria/SIMULA workshop (26/09), SOPH.I.A Summit (20/11) and TRM Forum (10/12).

• N. Ayache gave the following plenary invited talks:

  • AI for Healthcare: Hope & Challenges. Global Forum on AI for Humanity, Paris, 2019.

  • AI for Medical Imaging & Digital Twins, Keynote Lecture, Shezhen University, China 2019.

  • AI for e-medecine, 5th International Symposium on Multi-disciplinary Computational Anatomy, Fukuoka, Japan 2019.

  • Le jumeau numérique: images, modèles et IA. Académie nationale de médecine, Paris, 2019.

  • Intelligence Artificielle et médecine. Académie des Sciences, Nice, 2019.

  • La Santé à l'ère numérique, Institut de l'ENS, 2019.

  • Imaging in Cancer - Multimodal Analysis, iBV, Nice, 2019

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

• H. Delingette is elected as MICCAI Society's Fellows.

Scientific Expertise

• M. Lorenzi was reviewer of the funding agency ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France). He is providing scientific consulting for the company MyDataModels and Flexper through an Inria Tech research contract.

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for the funding agency Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

• M. Sermesant was an evaluator for the Wellcome Trust (UK), the NSF (USA) and the Netherlands research council.

• H. Delingette is a member of the scientific committee of the institute 3IA Côte d'Azur and was reviewer of the funding agency ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France).

• N. Ayache is a member of the following scientific committes:

  • 2016 -: Scientific advisory committee for Région Ile de France (20 members),

  • 2015 - 2019: Research Committee of Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (18 members),

  • 2010 -: Scientific Advisory Boards in London (ICL,KCL,UCL), Oxford & Notthingham,

  • 2009 - 2019: Advisory Committee, Japan Initiative in Computational Anatomy, MEXT.

Research Administration

• N. Ayache is the scientific director of the 3IA Côte d'Azur since its creation in April 2019.

• Marco Lorenzi 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. He is also member of the Scientific Board of the UCA NeuroMod Institute.

• Xavier Pennec is co-director of the Ecole doctorale STIC of Université Côte d'Azur. He is a member of the committee of EDSTIC, of the Doctoral follow-up Committee (CSD) at Inria Sophia Antipolis, and participated to the PhD fellowship granting committees of EDSTIC, Cofund at UCA, CORDI at Inria. He is a member of the "Comité de la Recherche Biomédicale en Santé Publique (CRBSP)" of the Nice University Hospital (CHU). At University Côte d'Azur / IDEX-JEDI, he is a member of the executive committee of the Academy 4 (Living systems Complexity and diversity), of the Scientific committee of the Academy 2 (Complex Systems), and of the Advanced Research Program Committee. He was elected member of the Evaluation Committee of Inria (Sep. 2019 to Aug. 2023) and participated to the promotion commission for CRCN, DR1, DR0.

• M. Sermesant is an elected member of the Inria Sophia Antipolis research centre committee.

• 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 director of the Academy of excellence on “Networks, Information and Digital Society” at the Université Côte d'Azur. He is the deputy director of the “Ecole Universitaire de recherche” entitled Digital Systems for Humans at Université Côte d'Azur. He is a representive of Inria at the Federation Hospitalo-Universitaire Oncoage led by the CHU Nice.