OSIPI has participated now for two times in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program (2024 and 2025). Google Summer of Code is an online program that supports junior software developers to contribute to open source software development. Although many resources have been developed within OSIPI, they are still in a preliminary state. Our current goal is to make these resources more accessible and user-friendly for anyone who wants to work with perfusion imaging. This requires the input from various professions, from imaging scientists to physicians to software engineers. Currently, our community consists predominantly of scientists and clinicians. By joining GSoC, we aim to expand our talent pool with some of the brightest summer students that can help solve the software-technical challenges we are having, such that the OSIPI software works easier, more robustly and more user-friendly.
In 2024, four brilliant contributors were matched to OSIPI. We were really happy with the results. Check out their reports below if you want to know what they have achieved!
This motivated us to participate again in 2025. Since May, five contributors are working on a variety of projects. Once they are finished, we will publish their results here. Get in touch if you are interested in projects for next years!
Hanliang Xu created a tool that automatically extracts and generates ‘ASL parameters’ from DICOM and BIDS images. This tool is designed to assist researchers in easily describing standardized imaging parameters in their scientific publications. This work is related to TF4.1. See the tool here.
Mohamed Nasser Hussein’s project prepared OSIPI for large-scale collaborative development and streamlined the integration of various developers’ contributions.
This work was related to TF2.3, but will have a wider impact for all OSIPI repositories in the future.
Yifan Shuai worked on the aggregation and translation of existing ASL code snippets to develop a library that is both robust for developers and accessible for users.
This work is related to the efforts of TF2.2.
Ahmed Bassem worked on the development of data visualization dashboard that serves as an interface to visualize the differences between collected IVIM code snippets. This work is related to ongoing efforts in TF2.4.
