About
The 1st MedIAN CodeFest aims to bring together young researchers with an Engineering and Computer Science background with leading scientists from Biomedical and Clinical disciplines to collaborate intensively over two days on medical image analysis challenges.
The CodeFest is a creative, social, and educational event with strong emphasis on multidisciplinary exchange with the ambition to generate new and exciting scientific insights.
Challenges
Teams can use Slack to share ideas and coordinate tasks while working on one of two main challenges:
AI for Brain Scans: Exploring deep learning for analysing medical images of the brain.
AnatomyVR: Virtual reality for 3D interactive visualisation of human anatomy.
Venue
The CodeFest is held on 21st and 22nd of September 2017 at Imperial College London.
Address
Imperial College London
Department of Computing - Huxley Building
180 Queens Gate
London, SW7 2AZ
Programme
Day 1 - Thursday, September 21
10:00 Welcome & Organisers Introductions
10:05 Overview of CodeFest: guidelines, required output, available resources, timelines
10:30 Setting the challenges
11:15 Group work – introductions, planning
13:00 Lunch
13:45 Group work
17:00 Un-official close. Teams can continue to work, pizza will be provided
Day 2 - Friday, Septemeber 22
08:30 Breakfast
09:00 Group work
13:00 Lunch
15:00 Presentations
16:30 Summary & Conclusions
17:00 Close