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      <span class="participate-kicker">Collaborate & Contribute</span>
      <h1>Two ways to take part in meaningful work</h1>
      <p>Work together on a clearly defined healthcare, data, software, research, or education problem—or contribute an original project, tool, article, case study, or learning resource that can help others understand and build responsibly.</p>
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        <span>Choose your path</span>
        <h2>Start with what you want to accomplish</h2>
        <p>Collaboration and contribution share the same standards, but they begin differently.</p>
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        <article class="participate-path" id="collaborate"><span>Collaborate</span><h3>Work together on a problem</h3><p>Best for organizations, researchers, educators, product teams, vendors, or professionals who want clinical, analytical, data, software, or workflow perspective on a defined need.</p><a href="#participation-form">Start a collaboration inquiry →</a></article>
        <article class="participate-path" id="contribute"><span>Contribute</span><h3>Share useful original work</h3><p>Best for people proposing a project, tool, article, tutorial, case study, dataset guide, or other educational material that can improve the platform’s knowledge base.</p><a href="#participation-form">Propose a contribution →</a></article>
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      <div class="participate-heading"><span>Where collaboration fits</span><h2>Problem areas where practical context matters</h2></div>
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        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Healthcare & clinical workflow</h3><p>Clinical informatics, imaging workflow, requirements discovery, operational measurement, quality context, and practical technology adoption.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Medical imaging & analytics</h3><p>PET/CT, nuclear medicine, quantitative imaging, response tracking, imaging data, workflow improvement, and analytical interpretation.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Data & software</h3><p>Analytics, prototypes, reproducible pipelines, decision-support concepts, software workflows, data quality, and applied engineering.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Research & education</h3><p>Case-based learning, technical writing, responsible AI, applied research concepts, learning materials, and knowledge-sharing.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Product & vendor discussion</h3><p>Healthcare technology, imaging systems, workflow tools, research products, and conversations that benefit from clinical and analytical perspective.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Responsible AI</h3><p>Evaluation, transparency, privacy, human oversight, trustworthy deployment, and appropriate use of AI in real environments.</p></article>
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      <div class="participate-heading"><span>Contribution types</span><h2>What the platform can review</h2><p>Contributions do not need to be large. They do need to be useful, original, clearly sourced, and honest about limitations.</p></div>
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        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Projects & code</h3><p>Reproducible projects, notebooks, examples, or engineering work built around a clearly described problem.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Tools & templates</h3><p>Calculators, browser tools, reference templates, workflow aids, or reusable technical resources.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Articles & tutorials</h3><p>Original explanations, practical guides, technical walkthroughs, or lessons that help users make informed decisions.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Case studies</h3><p>Structured accounts of a problem, method, evidence, result, limitation, and lesson learned.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Healthcare & imaging insight</h3><p>Educational material grounded in clinical workflow, medical imaging, informatics, analytics, or professional practice.</p></article>
        <article class="participate-card"><h3>Resource recommendations</h3><p>High-quality datasets, documentation, media, standards, or learning sources that improve the curated directories.</p></article>
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      <div class="participate-standard-copy"><span class="participate-kicker" style="color:#0b5c91">Shared standard</span><h2>Useful, honest, and safe</h2><p>Whether the goal is collaboration or contribution, the same baseline applies: define the problem, identify who is affected, explain the evidence, respect licensing and privacy, and be clear about what has not been validated.</p></div>
      <div class="participate-checklist"><strong>Before submitting</strong><ul><li>Explain the problem, audience, or intended use.</li><li>Provide a working repository or source link when applicable.</li><li>State data sources, licensing, and attribution requirements.</li><li>Describe validation, assumptions, and important limitations.</li><li>Do not include patient-identifying, confidential, or proprietary information.</li><li>Do not present educational healthcare work as clinical advice or validated clinical performance.</li></ul></div>
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        <span class="participate-kicker">Send a proposal</span>
        <h2>One form for collaboration and contributions</h2>
        <p>Choose the type of conversation and briefly describe what you want to solve, build, share, or discuss. Please do not include patient-identifying or confidential information.</p>
        <div class="participate-actions"><a href="{{ '/contact/' | relative_url }}">General contact</a><a href="{{ '/faq/' | relative_url }}">Read FAQ</a><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lissan-analytic" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LinkedIn</a></div>
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        <input type="hidden" name="_subject" value="DataForSolution collaboration or contribution">
        <label for="participation-type">Type</label>
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          <option value="">Choose one</option>
          <option>Collaboration inquiry</option>
          <option>Contribution proposal</option>
          <option>Research or education discussion</option>
          <option>Product or vendor discussion</option>
          <option>Other</option>
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        <label for="participation-name">Name</label>
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        <label for="participation-email">Email</label>
        <input id="participation-email" type="email" name="email" autocomplete="email" required>
        <label for="participation-org">Organization or affiliation <span style="font-weight:400">(optional)</span></label>
        <input id="participation-org" type="text" name="organization">
        <label for="participation-link">Relevant link <span style="font-weight:400">(optional)</span></label>
        <input id="participation-link" type="url" name="link" placeholder="GitHub, project, article, or resource URL">
        <label for="participation-message">What would you like to discuss or contribute?</label>
        <textarea id="participation-message" name="message" rows="7" required></textarea>
        <button type="submit">Send proposal</button>
        <p class="participate-note">Submission does not guarantee publication, partnership, endorsement, or technical/clinical review. Proposals are evaluated for relevance, safety, provenance, and usefulness.</p>
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