As previously announced, the conference will take place on September 29th-30th, 2023, in Hanover (Germany). Make sure to attend this event and to present your work if you want to contribute to the development of our worldwide community!
The topics of interest include:
Orthanc-specific contributions:
Real-world deployments of Orthanc (clinical departments, hospitals, regional/country-wide implementations,…).
Scientific projects that leverage Orthanc.
Industrial applications built using Orthanc.
Extensions to Orthanc (scripts, plugins,…).
Contributions beyond Orthanc:
Free, libre and open-source software (FLOSS), as well as open hardware projects, for medical imaging and digital pathology.
FLOSS for the automated analysis of medical images (computer vision, deep learning, and machine learning).
Healthcare interoperability through FLOSS and open standards (DICOM, BIDS, NIfTI, IIIF, FHIR,…).
This has just been clarified on the homepage of the Orthanc conference, after synchronization with the GNU Health team.
Here are the key points:
GNU Health Con 2023 and Orthanc Con 2023 will only be organized as an on-site event, so as to foster interactions between people. There will be no option for guests to follow the conference live remotely.
However, speakers who wish to present their work and who couldn’t attend the conference on-site are invited to send a pre-recorded video together with their submissions. […]
Two types of talk are possible, and you must specify which one applies to your submission:
On-site talk: This is the preferred type of talk.
Pre-recorded talk: If you cannot attend the conference on site in Hanover, you must submit a pre-recorded video of your talk of 10-20 minutes, encoded under the MP4 file format, together your the main text file describing your submission. A live Q&A session will be organized with the remote speakers.
It is a pity that there will be no streaming. Of course, interaction is important, but there are also people like me (I think I am not the only one in that category :)) who would be interested in listening to at least some presentations. As I already said earlier under a different topic on this forum, I am not a medical imaging professional, nor a software developer. I am just an educated patient, a user of my small-scale Orthanc setup, and a minor contributor to Orthanc localization, so I would be unable to add much to your educated discussions. In any case, I am in the army, defending my country against aggression, so I would be unable to come to the conference even if I decided to do so. Still, I usually have a good Internet connection, I sometimes have some free time, and I am interested in hearing first-hand about “Real-world deployments of Orthanc”, “Scientific projects that leverage Orthanc”, “Healthcare interoperability through FLOSS and open standards”, etc., etc.