ISMRM21 - Software Engineering for MRI: How to Get onto the Cloud

Software Engineering for MRI: How to Get onto the Cloud

Sunrise Session

ORGANIZERS: Michael Lustig, Daniel Gallichan

Monday, 17 May 2021

Concurrent 7

17:00 - 18:00

Moderators: Michael Lustig & Daniel Gallichan

Skill Level: Basic to Intermediate

Session Number: T-16

Parent Session: Software Engineering for MRI: How to Get onto the Cloud

Session Number: T-16

Overview
Over the past years, there have been huge advances in concepts and tools for creating, managing, and executing software. These include large project collaborative management, distributed version control, cloud resources, development environments, libraries, and more. These tools, fueled by open source, are extremely powerful and enable anyone to create new packages and participate in large development projects, as well as allow easy execution of massive computation inexpensively.

The purpose of this course is to expose and provide basic knowledge of these concepts and tools that are useful for researchers and clinicians in the field of MR.

Target Audience
Anyone who is interested in learning about basic software engineering concepts and tools. It is likely to be of most benefit to those familiar with basic coding concepts and those who would like to know and leverage the recent advances in software development.

Educational Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe different resources available for cloud services and cloud programming;
- Illustrate working with cloud resources on example data; and
- Explain how to get started when applying cloud resources to new problems.

How to Get onto the Cloud

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Andrey Fedorov

In recent years, the use of cloud services became ubiquitous in our everyday lives. Knowingly or not, we rely on the cloud to enable collaborative work, analysis and sharing of data, development and testing of code. In this tutorial the attendees will gain basic understanding of how “the cloud” can support scientific research activities, what are the advantages and challenges of using the cloud, and will have the opportunity to gain practical experience with utilizing the cloud for exploration and analysis of public imaging collections. The tutorial includes both the lecture and hands-on components.