Events: DTI Tractography Challenge

The DTI Challenge workshop was held at the MICCAI 2011 conference in Toronto, Canada. Please visit the [Events:DTI_Tractography_Challenge_MICCAI_2011 workshop page ]]of the event for details on the organization.

This page gathers material on the on-going effort and workshop outcomes.

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• Cortico Spinal Tract (CST), from the 2008 edition of the PNL SPL brain atlas
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  CST and surrounding structures: Putamen blue, caudate nucleus in brown, lateral ventricles in green

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  3d rendering of the CST. Motor Cortex in Yellow, CST in white, thalamic nuclei in multiple colors

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  3d rendering of the CST, view from below

• The atlas is freely available. For a download, see here. In addition to the label maps, it is configured to be loaded into 3D Slicer. Several preconfigured views are available.
• For more information about where the CST is located in the posterior limb in the internal capsule and spinal cord, have a look at the picture in this link.

Workshop Faculty

• Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Alexandra Golby, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Guido Gerig, Ph.D.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
• Martin Styner, Ph.D., Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratory, University of North Carolina
• William Wells, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D., Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• Sylvain Gouttard, M.Sc.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
• Arya Nabavi, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

Teams participating in the challenge

• Olivier Commonwick, INRIA Rennes, France
• Caroline Brun, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA
• Maged Goubran, Robarts Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
• Gopal Veni, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Salt Lake City, USA
• Guang Cheng, University of Florida, USA
• Antonio Tristan-Vega, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Boston, USA
• Peter Neher, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
• Yundi Shi, UNC Chapell Hill, USA