What's new in 2022?

🎁️ Prizes and 🛡️ e-Badges for Winners

Placement 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Audience Choice
Award Amount $1500 $1000 $500 $500

These amounts are redeemable for SIIM educational initiatives such as SIIMU (self-paced online learning) and SIIM Training (instructor-led training).

Winners will also get certified e-badges that you can proudly display on your social-media profiles (e.g. LinkedIn).

📖️ New Documentation

You are looking at it right now! Hope you find it spiffy 😉️

⌨️ Interactive Coding Tutorials

These can help you learn FHIR and/or DICOMweb a little faster, and provide code samples you can build upon!

⛓️ Private Ethereum Network (Blockchain implementation)

API available at http://hackathon.siim.org/ethereum/ NOTE http NOT https

See 5-Minute Ethereum Starting Guide for more information.

☢️ DICOM image samples from Dermatology, Ophthalmology and Pathology

The easiest way to find each is to search DICOMweb by Modality, see more detailed examples below.

Dermatology

https://hackathon.siim.org/dicom-web/studies?ModalitiesInStudy=XC

XC = External Capture, which is NOT always dermatology, but on our server all XCs are Dermatology images)

Thanks to ISIC for providing these samples from the 2020 SIIM-ISIC Challenge

Ophthalmology

https://hackathon.siim.org/dicom-web/studies?ModalitiesInStudy=OP

OP = Ophthalmic Photography

Thanks to Dr. Damien Luviano and Michael Turano for providing these samples.

Pathology

https://hackathon.siim.org/dicom-web/studies?ModalitiesInStudy=SM

SM = Slide Microscopy

Thanks to DICOM WG-26 and Dr. Markus D. Herrmann

💡️ Machine Learning Tutorials

Sample code to get you up and running with your Machine Learning journey, in the form of Jupyter Notebooks. Thanks to Dr. Eduardo Farina and his team at Dados e Saúde for providing those.

  1. DICOM Window-levelling for Brain CT Scans. Read more about windowing explained.
  2. Neural Network training for Tuberculosis Detection (work in progress).