1. Training Update AHM 2007
Sonia Pujol, Ph.D. Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Randy Gollub, M.D., Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital

2. NA-MIC Courseware

3. NA-MIC Courseware Integration of teaching features
didactic content + data + instructions + solutions

4. NA-MIC Courseware Integration of teaching features
Translation of concepts into skills through instructor-led training sessions

5. NA-MIC Courseware Integration of teaching features
Translation of concepts into skills
Simplicity: bring key image analysis techniques to the trainees laptops

6. New Courses 2006

7. EM Brain Atlas Classifier
Expectation-Maximization
algorithm for automatic
brain segmentation

8. DWI data to Nrrd
Conversion of Diffusion Weighted images into the Nrrd file format

9. Tensors data to Nrrd
Conversion of tensor data into the Nrrd file format

10. DT-MRI Diffusion Tensor Imaging analysis and visualization
270 teaching
slides on DTI

11. fMRI Engine
Statistical analysis
of fMRI timeseries

12. New Events 2006

13. 2006 Workshops

14. Training specificity
Tailored workshops for NA-MIC community members

15. 2006 Workshops

16. 2006 Workshops

17. NA-MIC Training Workshop at the Mind Institute
Tailored pre-processing and analysis of MR datasets from the Mind Institute
Automatic segmentation and 3D visualization

18. Training specificity and
Tailored workshops for NA-MIC community members
Broader scientific community dissemination
and

19. 2006 Workshops

20. NA-MIC Dissemination event at the NCBC 2006 AHM
24 participants from 11 groups within NIH and 12 extramural universities and companies

21. NA-MIC Dissemination event at the NCBC 2006 AHM
24 participants from 11 groups within NIH and 7 extramural universities and companies
8 hours DTI Training at the National Library of Medicine

22. NA-MIC Dissemination event at the NCBC 2006 AHM
24 participants from 11 groups within NIH and 12 extramural universities and companies
8 hours DTI Training at the National Library of Medicine
Education engagement of NAMIC activities with NIH staff

23. Training specificity and
Tailored workshops for NA-MIC community members
Broader scientific community dissemination
Demonstrates the flexibility of the workshop format
and

24. Training specificity and
Tailored workshops for NA-MIC community members
Broader scientific community dissemination
Demonstrates the flexibility of the workshop format
Achieves proposed training goals
and

25. Workshops
2005

26. Workshops
2006
2005

27. Trainees Feedback

28. Area of expertise

29. Most advanced degree

30. Source: Sample of 64 respondents out of 129 attendees
Training preparation
Extremely easy
Easy
Extremely difficult
Source: Sample of 64 respondents out of 129 attendees

31. Source: Sample of 64 respondents out of 129 attendees
Speed of the sessions
Too fast
Just right
Source: Sample of 64 respondents out of 129 attendees
Too slow

32. Content of the tutorials
Too detailed
Just right
Not enough information
Source: Sample of 64 respondents out of 129 attendees

33. Impact of NA-MIC Training
Would you consider using Slicer to do some analysis and data visualization in the future ?

34. Impact of NA-MIC Training
Would you consider using Slicer to do some analysis and data visualization in the future ? Yes……………………………86 % Maybe ………………………..14 % No ……………………………..0 %
Source: Sample of 14 respondents out of 46 attendees

35. Geographical distribution of attendees 2005 : 13 different universities
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, NH
Center for Addiction and Mental Healh
University of Toronto, Canada
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
University of California Irvine
General Electrics, Niskayuna NY
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for
Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
University of California San Diego
Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery, University of New Mexico
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Biomedical Informatics Research Network Coordinating Center, San Diego

36. Geographical distribution of attendees 2006 : 41 different universities
1.     National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
National Institutes of Health
2.     New Mexico Resonance
3.     University of New-Mexico
4.     Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
5. University of Iowa
6.     Imaging Science and Information Systems (ISIS) Center,
Georgetown University
7.    Department of Gerontology, Beth Israel Medical Center
8.     Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
9.     Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical
Systems and Technology (ERC-CISST), Johns Hopkins University
10.  Georges Washington University
11.  National Institute of Standards and Technology
12.  Image Processing & Visualization Lab, The University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
13.  MITRE Corporation
14.  Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical
Center
15.  Medical Numerics, National Institutes of Health
16. The Mind Institute
17.  Division Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute,
18.  Molecular Imaging Branch, National Institutes of Mental Health,
19.  Diagnostic Radiology Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of
Health
20. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
21. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin,
National Institutes of Health
22. Audiovisual Program Development Branch, National Library of Medicine
23. National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
27. Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health
28. National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
29. Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications, National Institutes of Health
30. Department of Neurosurgery, Golby Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
31. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
32. Stroke research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
33. Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
34. Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
35. Institute for aging research, Hebrew Rehab Center for the Aged
36.  Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
37.  Department of Health Science, Boston University
38.  Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital
39. GlaxoSmithKline, RTP, NC
40. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine
41.  Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital

37. Conclusion: Training Statistics to date
370 participants from 52 different universities and companies

38. Conclusion: Training Statistics to date
370 participants from 52 different universities and companies
11 different national research centers hosted a NA-MIC workshop

39. Conclusion: Training Statistics to date
370 participants from 52 different universities and companies
11 different national research centers hosted a NA-MIC workshop
7,700 access to the Slicer 101 portfolio

40. Future plans – Part 1
Design and development of Slicer3 training materials

41. Future plans – Part 1
Design and development of Slicer3 training materials
Instructor-led workshops for second round of DBPs

42. Future plans – Part 1
Design and development of Slicer3 training materials
Instructor-led workshops for second round of DBPs
Continued dissemination to the broader scientific community of existing teaching materials

43. Future plans – Part 2 First international conference:
NA-MIC DTI workshop at the 13th
Annual Meeting of the Organization
for Human Brain Mapping 2007
June 9, 2007 Chicago

44. Future plans – Part 2 First international conference:
NA-MIC DTI workshop at the 13th
Annual Meeting of the Organization
for Human Brain Mapping 2007
June 9, 2007 Chicago
Peer-reviewed journal publications describing teaching methods and outcomes

45. 370 participants in 18 months
Training Workshops
370 participants in 18 months