3D Slicer for Latin America Events

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 participated in 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 NA-MIC 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 TutorialMaker 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, Ribeirao 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, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil. The poster lead to discussions on the technical and social aspects of software internationalization. Attendees were particularly interested in the Weblate workflow: how strings are extracted from code, the criteria for becoming a translator, and the process for uploading new content. Beyond the technicalities, we highlighted how English-only software and documentation create significant barriers for the Latin American biomedical community. By localizing these tools, we empower experienced professors and students to share their expertise and contribute to the field.

41st Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW41), June 24-28, 2024, Cambridge, MA, USA

The 41st NA-MIC Project Week was held June 24–28, 2024, at MIT, Cambridge, MA. The TutorialMaker 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. A workshop was organized by the Mexican team at the Faculty of Engineering UAEM and the PhD. Joel Zagoya López (collaborator on the project), his area of expertise is design with experience in segmentation and reconstruction of 3D models for 3D printing. This 6-hour workshop was carried out as part of the dissemination activities, and it was held on June 10, 2024 (Workshop material ). This educational event was specifically designed for the students interested in medical imaging. The session had an outstanding attendance of 4 teachers and 17 students eager to acquire knowledge in this cutting-edge area.

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. A workshop was organized by the Medical Bioengineer Enrique Hernandez Laredo, a member of the mexican team. This 3-hour workshop was carried out as part of the dissemination activities, and it was held on May 7th and 14th, 2024. The “Obtaining Three-dimensional Kidney model from CT Imaging” workshop was held at the Universidad del Valle de México in Toluca, State of Mexico. The workshop was attended by 25 sixth-semester students from the Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's program, and was taught in Spanish using the original (English) 3D Slicer 5.6.2 release version, the language selection was due to the lack of a stable internet connection and the time needed to train the users in the Spanish language configuration during the workshop.

40th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW40), Jan.29 - Feb.2, 2024, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain

The 40th NA-MIC Project Week was the first event in person for the Latin American team, with Enrique Hernandez Laredo (Mexico) and Lucas Sanchez Silva and Prof. Luiz Otávio Murta Junior (Brazil) attending in person at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. The other members joined online. The 3D Slicer for Latin America project page showcased a functional prototype for creating tutorials within 3D Slicer, divided into three main stages:
  1. Generation of tutorials using Python scripts: This stage enables the creation and modification of Screenshots and associated Slicer environment metadata, using the Slicer self-test infrastructure, in an automatic way. So a Python self-test, that describes a use case for Slicer for testing purposes, may also save the necessary information for a tutorial creation in a language-independent format.
  2. Generation of annotations: A graphical interface integrated into 3D Slicer allows the placement of various types of annotations, including arrows, circles, rectangles, and text, directly onto the interface.
  3. Painter: The final stage retrieves information from the previous stages to accurately reconstruct annotations, addressing challenges related to dimensions and button positions across different languages.

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. This was the First Slicer hackathon in Latin America. There were 20 attendees working on individual projects ranging from breast cancer ultrasound diagnosis systems to Alzheimer disease grading based on MRI. In the end, 2 projects were selected to be awarded by the Symposium organization with music gadgets and certificates.

39th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW39), June 12-16, 2023, Montreal, Canada

The 39th NA-MIC 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 TutorialMaker development and Slicer localization.

38th Slicer Project Week hackathon (PW38), Jan.30 - Feb.3, 2023, Gran Canaria, Spain

The 38th NA-MIC Project Week was held January 30 – February 3, 2023, in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. The Latin American team members contributed to the 3D Slicer Internationalization project.

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.