Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Member of the Organizing Committees

• M. Sermesant was a co-chair of the MICCAI 2018 Workshop Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart (STACOM 2018), which was held in Granada, September 16, 2018.

• H. Delingette was a member of the organizing committee of the scientific day at Inria Sophia Antipolis (September 10th) including two keynote speakers on "Digital privacy" and presenting the activities of the UCA academy on "Networks, Information and Digital Society".

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• H. Delingette was Workshop and Tutorial co-chair for the international conference Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2018) held in Granada, Spain from Sept. 16-20.

Reviewer

• M. Lorenzi was a reviewer for the conferences Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2018), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018), Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2018), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019), IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017-19).

• X. Pennec was a reviewer for Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2018) and the MICCAI workshop on Shape in Medical Imaging (ShapeMI 2018).

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention (MICCAI 2018) and the MICCAI workshop STACOM.

• H. Delingette was a reviewer for the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI'18), the international conference on computer-aided interventions (IPCAI'18), the conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2018), the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2018).

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, Scientific Reports.

• Xavier Pennec was a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, The Annals of Applied Statistics, Linear Algebra and its Applications.

• M. Sermesant was a reviewer for the following journals: Nature Cardiology Reviews, 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, IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering.

Invited Talks

• N. Ayache gave the following plenary invited talks:

  • AI for Digital Patients, Int Conf on Image Comput. and Digital Medicine, Chengdu, China, 2018,

  • IA & Healthcare, IA Summit, Sophia Antipolis, 2018,

  • Patient numérique: images, apprentissage, intelligence artificielle, Collége de France 2018,

  • L’intelligence articifielle au coeur de la médecine de précision, Medicen, Paris, 2018.

• M. Lorenzi was a speaker for the panel IA & Santé of the SophIA Summit 2018, Sophia Antipolis, November 7th, 2018. He was also invited to give a lecture to the Armour College of Engineering of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, July 25th 2018, to the General Assembly of the European Clinical Project AMYPAD, Berlin, October 9th 2018, and to the Disease Progression Modeling Workshop of the European project EUROPOND, Geneva, February 19th, 2018.

• X. Pennec was invited speaker at the Mathematics and Image Analysis Conference (MIA 2018), 15-17 January 2018, Berlin (DE), at the MFO workshop on Nonlinear Data: Theory and Algorithms, Oberwolfach (DE), 22-28 April 2018, at the MFO workshop on Statistics for Data with Geometric Structure, Oberwolfach (DE), 21-27 January 2018.

• M. Sermesant was an invited speaker at the Fields Institute (Toronto) "Mathematics for Medicine" workshop, at the "Myocardial Function" workshop in Leuven, at the CardioFunxion Winter School in Lyon, at the "New Horizons in Heart Failure" conference in Paris, at the "Computing in Cardiology" conference in Maastricht, at the French Radiology Days meeting of Cardiac Imaging in Paris, at the PIC Marie Curie ITN meeting in Bordeaux.

• H. Delingette was a keynote speaker at the NAFEMS conference in Paris November 20th 2018, and an invited speaker at the SOFA workshop in Strasburg in November 2018, at the Data Science structuring program evaluation day in Sept. 2018.

• N. Miolane was invited speaker at the MFO workshop on Statistics for Data with Geometric Structure, Oberwolfach (DE), 21-27 January 2018, at the Workshop on Geometry in Machine Learning (GiMLi), July 15, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden and at the Seminar of John Hopkins University, Center of Imaging Science, May 19, 2018, Baltimore, USA.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

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

Scientific Expertise

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

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

  • 2015 -: 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.

• M. Lorenzi was reviewer of the funding agencies ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France) and an expert panel member for the evaluation of the projects submitted to the Flanders Research Foundation, Belgium. He is providing scientific consulting for the company MyDataModels through an Inria Tech research contract.

• X. Pennec was a member of the Junior researcher (CR) recruiting committee for Inria-Sophia Antipolis, for the Inria International Chairs Selection Committee, and an evaluator for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

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

• H. Delingette was an evaluator for the Dutch research council NWO, and or the Research Council of KU Leuven.

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). At University Côte d'Azur, 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.

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

• 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. He is member of the executive committee 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.