3D Slicer for Latin America Outreach Events
Dr. Sonia Pujol's IEEE EMBS Invited Talk, June 13, 2026, Montevideo, Uruguay
Dr. Sonia Pujol delivered an invited keynote lecture at the IEEE EMBS Student Chapter, Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay, on June 13, 2026. Her presentation focused on 3D Slicer as a leading open-source platform for medical imaging and 3D digital modeling, as part of the Introduction to 3D Engineering in Medicine program. This marks the first official activity of the Slicer for Latin America project in Uruguay.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, Nov.12-14, 2025, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held from November 12-14, 2025, in Toluca, Mexico, focused on AI-based technology.
Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, Oct.31, 2025, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
The Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, held on October 31, 2025, in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, focused on AI-driven technology for Radiologists.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, Oct.27, 2025, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held on October 27, 2025, in Toluca, Mexico, focused on Slicer for Ultrasound in Latin America.
CZI Open Science 2025, Oct. 19-22, 2025, Carlsbad, California
Sonia Pujol presented the 3D Slicer for Latin America project at the Showcase session of the CZI Open Science 2025 annual meeting, held October 19–22, 2025 in Carlsbad, California.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, Oct.8 & 10, 2025, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held on October 8 & 10, 2025, in Toluca, Mexico, focused on AI-based technology for Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians.
Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, June 30, 2025, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
The Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, held on June 30, 2025, in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, focused on AI-driven technology for Radiologists.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, June 6, 2025, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held on June 6, 2025, at Universidad del Valle de México (UVM), Toluca, focused on Ultrasound Images.
42nd Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW42), Jan.27-31, 2025, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
The 42nd Slicer Project Week was held in person at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. Douglas Samuel Gonçalves, Lucas Sanchez Silva, and Victor Manuel Montaño Serrano attended in person. The team worked on the 3D Slicer for Latin America project, advancing Tutorial Maker with bug fixes, new features, automated testing infrastructure, and translations of tutorials to Portuguese and Spanish.
CZI Open Science 2024
Sonia Pujol presented the 3D Slicer for Latin America project at the Open Science in Latin America session of the 2024 CZI Open Science annual meeting.
Brazilian Congress of Biomedical Engineering (CBEB2024), September 2-6, 2024, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
The Slicer for Latin America team presented a poster entitled "Preliminary Results of 3D Slicer Localization to Portuguese and Spanish for the Latin American Biomedical Engineering Community" at the XIX Brazilian Congress of Biomedical Engineering (CBEB2024), September 2-6, 2024, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
41st Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW41), June 24-28, 2024, Cambridge, MA, USA
The 41st Slicer Project Week was held June 24–28, 2024, at MIT, Cambridge, MA. The Tutorial Maker module was showcased at the 3D Slicer for Latin America project and is being tested by the community.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, June 10, 2024, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held on June 10, 2024, in Toluca, Mexico, focused on Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction.
Slicer Toluca Workshop, May 7 & 14, 2024, Toluca, Mexico
The Slicer Toluca Workshop, held on May 7 & 14, 2024, in Toluca, Mexico, focused on Obtaining 3D models of the kidneys from CT imaging.
40th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW40), Jan.29 - Feb.2, 2024, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
The 40th Slicer Project Week was held January 29 – February 2, 2024, at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, and was the first in-person event for the Latin American team, who contributed to the 3D Slicer for Latin America project.
Three-day 3D Slicer Hackathon, Oct.8-10, 2023, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
The Brazilian team organized a three-day 3D Slicer Hackathon within the XI Symposium on Medical Imaging and Instrumentation program held from October 8 to 10, 2023, at the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto campus.
39th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW39), June 12-16, 2023, Montreal, Canada
The 39th Slicer Project Week was held June 12–16, 2023, at École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada. The team participated with the 3D Slicer for Latin America project, advancing Tutorial Maker development and Slicer localization.
38th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW38), Jan.30 - Feb.3, 2023, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
The 38th Slicer Project Week was held January 30 - February 3, 2023, in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. Dr. Sonia Pujol hosted daily online sessions on 3D Slicer internationalization and introduced the "3D Slicer for Latin America: Localization and Outreach" project to the 3D Slicer community at the event. Dr. Adriana Vilchis González and Dr. Luiz Murta participated in the daily sessions that brought together 23 participants from Mexico, Brazil, Senegal, Hungary, Mauritania, the USA, and Canada. Dr. Pujol gave a training tutorial on how to use 3D Slicer internationalization infrastructure to translate 3D Slicer in multiple languages at the event. The Latin American team members contributed to the 3D Slicer Internationalization project.
108th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2022), Nov.27 - Dec.1, 2022, Chicago, IL, USA
We introduced the "3D Slicer for Latin America: Localization and Outreach" project in our educational exhibit entitled "The 3D Slicer open source software platform for medical image processing, 3D visualization and image-guided therapy" (Sonia Pujol, PhD, Steve Pieper, PhD, Andras Lasso, PhD, Andriy Fedorov, PhD, Ron Kikinis, MD) at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2022).
IX Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CLAIB 2022) and the XXVIII Brazilian Congress on Engineering Biomedical Engineering (CBEB 2022), Oct.24-28, 2022, Santa Catarina, Brazil
The project was presented at the CLAIB 2022 / CBEB 2022 conference, held October 24–28, 2022, in Santa Catarina, Brazil.