AHM 2008

Venue

Marriot City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah Mariott City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Floorplan

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Agenda Outline

This is the agenda outline for AHM 2008 and related activities:

Sunday, January 6: Core 1&2 Site PI Retreat

• Morning: Travel
• 1-5pm: Closed session for Core 1&2 Site PIs, no delegates. Topic: competitive renewal. (The NIH IC Directors will provide us with additional information about the competitive renewal mechanics in mid December, at which point we will circulate it.)
• 3pm: coffee break

Monday January, 7: Core 1&2 Site PI retreat/Project Activities

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Core 1&2 Site PI retreat continued
• 10:30am: coffee break
• Noon: lunch
• 1-3pm: Introduce Project Half Week Participants and Projects
• 3pm: coffee break
• 3-5pm: Start Project Work

Tuesday January, 8: Project Activities

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Project Work
• 10:30am: coffee break
• Noon: lunch
• 1-2pm: Special Topic Breakout Session (TBD)
• 2-5pm: Project Work
• 3pm: coffee break

Wednesday January, 9: Project Activities and Tractography Validation/Comparison

• 8am: Breakfast
• 9am-noon: Project Work running in parallel with Tractography Project
  
  • 9:00-9:15 am am: Guido Gerig, Overview of Project goals and progress to date tractography methods | see this page for background
  • 9:15 Sonia Pujol (BWH) Streamline Tractography in Slicer2.7 using ROI and Whole Brain Seeding
  • 9:35 Sylvain Gouttard (Utah) FiberViewer
  • 9:55 Tri Ngo (MIT/BWH) Stochastic Tractography
  • 10:15 John Melonakos (Georgia Tech) Geodesic Tractography Segmentation
• 10:35am: coffee break
  • 11:00 Ross Whitaker/Tom Fletcher (Utah) Volumetric Connectivity
  • 11:20 Casey Goodlett (Utah) DTI Atlas
  • 11:40 Sonia Pujol (BWH) Cross algorithm summary statistics
• 12:15PM: lunch
• 1-2pm: Special Topic Breakout Session (TBD)
• 2-5pm: Project Work running in parallel with Tractography Project
  
• *2:00- 5:00 Ross Whitaker to kick-off discussion of Tractography results with summarizing ideas & focus on next steps
• 3pm: coffee break

Thursday January, 10: AHM, EAB

• 7:30am Breakfast
• Morning: Presentation of the NA-MIC kit modules (software plus training materials) contributed by each core 1 and 2 site
  • 8:00-8:20am: Utah, Ross Whitaker
  • 8:20-8:40am: MIT, Polina Golland
  • 8:40-9:00am: Georgia Tech, Allen Tannenbaum
  • 9:00-9:20am: UNC, Martin Styner
  • 9:20-9:40am: MGH, Bruce Fischl
  • 9:40-10:00am: Coffee Break
  • 10:00-10:20am: Kitware, Will Schroeder
  • 10:20-10:40am: GE Research, Jim Miller
  • 10:40-11:00am: Isomics, Steve Pieper
  • 11:00-11:20am: UCSD, Mark Ellisman
  • 11:20-11:40am: UCLA, Arthur Toga
• 11:40-12:15: Invited speaker: Mike Sherman, Stanford NCBC Simbios, SimTK Architect
• 12:15-1pm: Lunch
• Early Afternoon: DBP results
  • 1:00-1:30pm: Queens/JHU, Gabor Fichtinger
  • 1:30-2:00pm:UNC, Heather Cody Hazlett
  • 2:00-2:30pm:Harvard, Marek Kubicki
  • 2:30-3:00pm:MIND/UNM, Jeremy Bockholt
• 3pm: coffee break
• 3:30-5:30pm: EAB (members planning to come, thus far: Godfrey Pearlson, Bill Lorensen, Sandy Napel, Chris Johnson, Fred Prior, Zohara Cohen, Carlo Pierpaoli)
• 6pm: Optional: Beer at Murphys (like last year)

Friday January, 11: Project Activities

• 8am: breakfast
• 9-10:30am: SimTK technical discussion breakout session
• 10:30am Coffee break
• 10:30am-noon: Project Updates
• Noon: adjourn and travel