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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Dear Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">The next preparation meetings for project week 39 will take place next Tuesday, May 9th, 2023<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(10 am Boston time, EDT) on Zoom. You can join using the following link:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/88039770641?pwd=L3JnRFAvRjQ2OEk1UWt1N2VMWDZZZz09">https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/88039770641?pwd=L3JnRFAvRjQ2OEk1UWt1N2VMWDZZZz09</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">ATTENTION!</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">: the
<b><u>zoom link has changed</u></b> from the one used over the last 2 years. Last prep meeting, some participants experienced ZoomBombing. In order to avoid this problem, we decided to change the link every week from now on. The link will also be posted to
the PW39 web page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">On May 9<sup>th</sup>, we will continue introducing new people and projects and we will have a special focus on segmentation and AI, with representatives from Monai Label and lungmask AI amongst others.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Looking forward to see you all!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Cheers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">The PW organizing committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">(Tina Kapur, Simon Drouin, Rafael Palomar, Sam Horvath, Theodore Aptekarev)</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week#39 will be held June 12-16, 2023,<span class="apple-converted-space"> at École de Technologie Supérieur (ETS) in Montreal, Canada. The meeting will have a hybrid
format to make it possible to participate remotely</span>. Please look here for additional details:<span class="apple-converted-space"> <a href="https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/" title="https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/</span></a> </span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Preparation</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">: To prepare, we will be holding<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>weekly meetings at 10am on Tuesdays, starting<span class="apple-converted-space"> <b>May </b></span><b>2nd,
2023</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and ending on June 6th. Please join at<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09" title="https://etsmtl.zoom.us/j/86211702920?pwd=TEl0ZTFDam90WVN5bjZhR05kNVRVZz09"><span style="color:#0563C1">this
link</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>if you have a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that you would like to present or work on during<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">Background</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:black">: The<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Project<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Week<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>week-long hackathon of hands on activity in which medical image computing researchers create solutions using the open source image computing platform, 3D Slicer, and VTK, ITK, CMake, and CDash libraries as well
as OHIF, Cornerstone, dcmjs, vtkjs, itkjs, DICOMweb, Girder and related web technologies. Participants work collaboratively on solutions that lie at the interfaces of the fields of computer science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and medicine.
In contrast to conferences and workshops where the primary focus is to report results, the objective of the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>ProjectWeek<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is to provide a venue for creators of medical image
computing open-source software creators to collaboratively work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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