About the workshop

Please join us for our inaugural MARCH workshop, an exciting 3-day event on statistical shape analysis and modeling. The workshop includes a full day course on statistical shape modeling from Marcel Lüthi and Ghazi Boubabene from the Graphics Vision Research Group at the University of Basel. They and other distinguished speakers will lead lectures and topical breakout sessions for participant teams throughout the event.

Statistical shape modeling has been a fundamental workhorse of medical image processing for decades. The fundamental idea is simple: build models that parameterize the shape of an object of interest (e.g., an organ, or bone) and leverage appropriate optimization techniques to fit an individual object. Shape modeling is essential in research and clinical practice. In this workshop, we will hear from leaders across the world who are developing the next generation of shape modeling tools and applying them to problems like tracking organ motion and neurodegenerative diseases, image analysis, surgical planning, implant design, and minimally-invasive surgery. A particular thread of the workshop will be practical short course sessions in which attendees will have the opportunity to learn firsthand from our speakers, leveraging open-source software to accomplish real-world shape-based modeling tasks with medical imaging data.

During the event, participant teams will have the opportunity to present their own work during social forums to support team formation for the rest of the MARCH program, and be paired with faculty mentors who will work with them throughout the year.

Health Hackathon Video 1 (Opening) [03:13]

Health Hackathon Video 2 (Closing) [03:00]