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Hackathon on Sustainability in Medical Imaging

When:
5th October 2026, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location:
UK Astronomy Technolocy Centre, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh Scotland EH9 3HJ

About

Ahead of the Sustainability in Medical Imaging workshop we will run a one day hackathon at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh Scotland EH9 3HJ. Note, this is a different venue than the workshop.

Registration

Please register your participation to the hackathon by registering for the Sustainability in Medical Imaging workshop.

Schedule

In-person attendees: please arrive before 9:15 to be able to get access and register on time.
Online attendees: Teams links will be provided (via the Discord channel). Outside of those meetings, communication will be via Discord.

Time	Event
9:00	Arrival (teas/coffees)
9:30	Hackathon topics and plan for the day [with Teams]
10:15	Start of hacking
12:00	Lunch
13:00	Report progress to the group [with Teams]
13:30	Continue hacking
15:00	Afternoon break
15:15	Continue hacking
16:15	Report back to the group (including draft slide(s) for presentation during the workshop) [with Teams]
17:00	End Hackathon

Preparation

Required

Register on the STIR Discord server and SyneRBI Discord server.
- (especially important for remote attendees) We’ll use the #sustainability-hackathon channel on the SyneRBI Discord server.
- Groups will create their own channels where appropriate.
Create a GitHub account if you haven’t yet.
Check our list of projects for the hackathon. We will ask you to join one of these (after giving a short description on Monday).
WiFi access:
- eduroam is available on site.
- Use GovWiFi if you cannot join eduroam. Send a text message with “Go” as the message to 07537 417 417.

Optional (but really useful)

We will provide cloud machines with the software pre-installed for those who need it.
You can get SIRF and STIR on your machine, see How to obtain SIRF · SyneRBI/SIRF Wiki. Choose the way that is most appropriate for you (user vs developer).
The SIRF-Exercises are a valuable tool to familiarise with our software. These can be viewed without software installation. See for instance, the Introductory, PET, and/or SPECT notebooks.
For new users, we recommend to use Docker. Full instructions here, but use either of
- - ```
  docker pull synerbi/sirf:edge-gpu
```
  (for gpus…)
- ```
docker pull synerbi/sirf:edge
```
    (no gpu)
  - Windows users should enable Docker Desktop’s WSL2 backend and Ubuntu integration.