3D Slicer for Latin America Team Event Participation

5th Slicer Toluca Workshop, Nov.12-14, 2025, Toluca, Mexico

The 5th Slicer Toluca Workshop focused on AI-based technology. It was held on November 12 & 14, 2025 in Toluca, Mexico.

2nd Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, Oct.31, 2025, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

The 2nd Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop focused on AI-driven technology for Radiologists. It was held on October 31, 2025 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

4th Slicer Toluca Workshop, Oct.27, 2025, Toluca, Mexico

The 4th Slicer Toluca Workshop focused on Slicer for Ultrasound in Latin America. It was held on October 27, 2025 in Toluca, Mexico.

CZI Open Science 2025, Oct. 19-22, 2025, Carlsbad, California

Sonia Pujol participated in the CZI Open Science 2025 meeting.

3rd Slicer Toluca Workshop, Oct.8 & 10, 2025, Toluca, Mexico

The 3rd Slicer Toluca Workshop focused on AI-based technology for Physiotherapists. It was held on October 8 & 10, 2025 in Toluca, Mexico.

1st Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop, June 30, 2025, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

The 1st Slicer Ribeirão Preto Workshop focused on AI-driven technology for Radiologists. It was held on June 30, 2025 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

CZI Open Science meeting

Sonia Pujol presented the 3D Slicer for Latin America project at the Open Science in Latin America session of the 2024 CZI Open Science meeting.

Poster presented in the CBEB 2024

The following poster titled “Preliminary Results of 3D Slicer Localization to Portuguese and Spanish for the Latin American Biomedical Engineering Community” was presented in the CBEB 2024. The poster created interest in how internationalization works, how we get the strings to translate, how we show these strings, who can upload the translations in Weblate, the qualifications to do that, and also how can they do it,. Also, a brief discussion about how the language barriers can make the process for users to use the Slicer or understand the documentation when it is all in English and projects like your project can help professors and students that have a lot of experience but aren't fluent in English to contribute and share knowledge.

Paper submitted to the CBEB 2024

A short paper was submitted to the CBEB 2024 (Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering - Brazilian Congress of Biomedical Engineering 2024 CBEB2024).

Participation in the 41st Project Week, June 24-28, 2024, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Tutorial Maker Module was showcased in the 41° Project Week from June 24th to June 28th, 2024, at d MIT, Cambridge, MA, and is being tested by the community.

2nd Slicer Toluca Workshop, June 10, 2024, Toluca, Mexico

The 2nd Slicer Toluca Workshop 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.

1st Slicer Toluca Workshop, May 7 & 14, 2024, Metepec, Mexico

The 1st Slicer Toluca Workshop 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 Metepec, 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.

Participation in the 40th Project Week, Jan.29 - Feb.2, 2024, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain

This PW40 was the first participation in person, with one Mexican member [Enrique Hernandez Laredo] and two Brazilian members [Lucas Sanchez Silva and Pr. Luiz Otavio Murta Junior] were in person at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain. The other members were online. The project's progress was presented at the PW39 in January 2024. Among the key achievements is the development of 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.
The following Tutorial Maker presentation was made during the PW.

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 Slicer Project Week was held in Montreal, Canada.

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

The 38th Slicer Project Week was held in Gran Canaria, Spain.

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 in Santa Catarina, Brazil.