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Updates from the OSIPI community: project launches, Google Summer of Code, workshops, and publications.

GSoC 2025: 5 projects selected

May 8, 2025

Five projects were granted by Google Summer of Code for the 2025 program. Over the summer these contributors will work on the following projects:

  • Melissa Lange will work on an addition to the Python package for blood brain barrier analysis (mentors: Ben Dickie, Jan Petr)
  • Elo will work on the extension of the ASL module for the OSIPI Python package (mentors: Maria Mora, Zhiliang Wei)
  • Ibrahim Abdelazim will work on the ASL parameter generator (mentors: David Thomas, Jan Petr)
  • Rohan Kumar Mahato will improve the structure and visibility of the documentation pages of all OSIPI resources (mentors: Luis Torres, Petra van Houdt)
  • Usman Akinyemi will develop a dockerized data processing pipeline for image analysis (mentors: Eric Peterson, Luis Torres)

OSIPI received a large number of excellent proposals this year and thanks all candidates for their efforts and interest in the community.

Read more about the projects on Program Organization | Google Summer of Code, and see the Google Summer of Code page for full project history.

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AURA: A Perfusion Imaging Artefact Database

March 28, 2025

AURA is a new OSIPI project dedicated to building an inventory of perfusion imaging artifacts. The goal is to better understand and address common and perfusion-specific artifacts, ultimately improving imaging quality for the community.

Call for contributions

Do you work with ASL, DSC, or DCE imaging? If you have examples of artifacts in your perfusion images, you are invited to submit them. To participate, use this link: https://lnkd.in/dEqKxumt

The AURA team: Annelie Haek, Patricia Clement, Soetkin Beun, Henk-Jan Mutsaerts, Luis Hernandez-Garcia, Jan Petr, David Thomas

See also the Perfusion Artifact Database tool.

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OSIPI in Pamplona

March 19, 2025

OSIPI was well represented at the ISMRM perfusion workshop in Pamplona. Two master students presented their work for the first time at an international workshop:

  • Annelie Haek (Ghent University) presented a perfusion imaging artefact database: AURA
  • Mohamed Nasser (GSoC 2024 student, Egypt) presented the start of the OSIPI Python package

The IVIM code repository from TF2.4 and the ASL parameter generator (from Hanliang Xu's GSoC 2024 project) were presented in the power pitches. Yuriko presented on standardization and open science in perfusion imaging, including OSIPI in her talk.

The OSIPI secret session at the end of the official program produced many new ideas that will be used for drafting the third roadmap.

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Google Summer of Code 2024 finished!

September 27, 2024

The Google Summer of Code 2024 program is complete. Four software engineers worked on projects related to ongoing activities in the task forces, in OSIPI's first experience with the program.

Read more about the projects and results on the Google Summer of Code page.

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First OSIPI papers published in MRM!

July 5, 2024

The first set of OSIPI papers is published as a dedicated section in the May edition of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. They are also gathered together as a virtual special issue. These papers are the result of teamwork within several task forces.

Published papers

Letter to the editor by OSIPI management:

Software and code:

Two lexicons:

Results from the first two OSIPI challenges:

See also the MRM highlights interview.

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