Reproducibility ensures that the results we obtain today can be reliably reproduced tomorrow. There has been a growing awareness of reproducibility concerns across various scientific domains in recent years. In medical imaging, the increasing complexity of software and research pipelines has impacted the ability to replicate scientific findings across different timeframes and research teams consistently. This issue is particularly important to Sorina because she manages the Virtual Imaging Platform (VIP), a web portal that allows researchers worldwide to execute medical imaging applications as a service. Originally from Romania, Sorina came to France at 19 years old to study after her A-levels and settled there. She now enjoys the double nationality of Romanian and French. A few years ago, becoming aware of sources of non-reproducibility and how important it was for science in general, she thought: What if the results produced with VIP are not always reproducible? How can we help our users improve the reproducibility of their results? Driven by these questions, with colleagues from CREATIS, IPHC in Strasbourg, and Concordia University in Canada, she embarked on a project called ReproVIP, which secured funding from the French National Research Agency. “Together, our initial aim was evaluating and improving the reproducibility of results obtained with VIP,” she tells us. “Gaining experience from that, we thought it would be nice to disseminate our findings and help researchers beyond VIP benefit and understand what the main challenges and pitfalls are, why we have reproducibility issues, how to evaluate, and how to improve the reproducibility of our results. That’s why we submitted an abstract for this tutorial at MICCAI, and we’re extremely happy it was accepted.” Reproducibility is an essential aspect 20 DAILY MICCAI Monday MICCAI Tutorial Sorina Pop (center) is a Research Engineer at CNRS, the National Centre for Scientific Research in France, working at the CREATIS laboratory on medical imaging. Her tutorial on computational reproducibility takes place on Thursday morning, and she is here to tell us more about it Make your Results Reproducible with the Virtual Imaging Platform (VIP)
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