Fraunhofer MEVIS researcher Jennifer Nitsch and Hans Meine won the NVIDIA Demo Contest at the 24th Project Week of the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) which was held during the week of January 9-13, 2017 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

The 2017 NVIDIA Demo Contest focused on Deep Learning. Jennifer Nitsch and Hans Meine were awarded for their work on a skull stripping method for T1-weighted MR images within the context of the project „Multi-Modality Segmentation of US- and MR-Images for Glioma Surgery“ and received a NVIDIA Titan X graphics card.

The Project Week is a semi-annual open source hackathon which draws 60-120 researchers. As of August 2014, it is a MICCAI endorsed event. The participants work collaboratively on open-science solutions for problems that lie on the interfaces of the fields of computer science, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and medicine.