Training:OHBM2007 Training Workshop

Workshop Goals

• To provide attendees with critical background education in the fundamentals of Diffusion Tensor Imaging data required to make informed decisions about how to analyze their own DTI data.
• To provide tutorials on DTI data validation and management (including how to put your image data into NRRD format).
• To provide hands on tutorials in the use of NA-MIC DTI analysis tools (including the Slicer DTI module).
• To establish contact between NA-MIC Tookit experts (users and developers) and basic and clinical researchers in the global neuroimaging community.
• To provide complementary material to what is being taught in the OHBM DTI Educational course to follow.

Workshop Logistics

• The workshop at the Sheraton Hotel that is hosting the OHBM Conference on the day before the meeting, June 10, 2007 in Chicago.
• We anticipate that approximately 45-50 graduate students, research fellows, junior faculty, research assistants and post-doctoral trainees from among the fields of clinical neuroscience (Psychiatry, Psychology, Neurology) as well as Radiology, and Computer Science will attend.

Workshop Faculty

• Guido Gerig
• Ross Whitaker (?)
• Randy Gollub
• Sonia Pujol
• Steve Pieper
• Katie Hayes

Preparation for Workshop -- Important Information for all attendees

Prerequisites for workshop: Read introductory materials to read in advance.

Please do these installations now.

All attendees are required to complete the following items prior to the workshop. Support will be provided as requested.

1. Software Installation:
2. Data to Download:
3. Introductory tutorial on Loading, Viewing and Saving image data in Slicer

We will be happy to assist anybody who may encounter difficulties in the installation process. As first point of contact, send an email to the NAMIC-developers mailing list which will be closely monitored by NA-MIC Tookit experts. Because we will focus on how to use the application(s) during the workshop not on how to install it, please do the install before you arrive.

Draft Agenda (subject to modifications by Workshop providers, trainees please do not edit this section)

8:00 AM - 5 PM

• 8:00 - 8:30 AM Technical support for installation and trouble shooting
• 8:30 - 8:45 AM Goals of Workshop, Introduction to the NA-MIC Kit, and People-Introductions (Randy Gollub)
• 8:45 - 9:30 AM What is DTI? Introduction to and working with DTI file formats (Sonia Pujol)
• 9:30 - 10:15 DTI data characterization - MR physics (TBD)
• 10:15-10:30 Break
• 10:30 - 11:00 Clinical applications (Guido Gerig/Randy Gollub)
• 11:00 - 12:00 Getting to Know DTI really, really well- tensors, glyphs and more (Ross Whitaker*)
• 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch on own
• 1:00- 1:30 Hands-on Session 1 (Sonia Pujol) Loading and Viewing data in Slicer
• 1:30-3:00 Hands-on Session 2 (Sonia Pujol) Introductory DTI tools for data exploration and characterization
• 3:00- 3:15 Coffee Break on own
• 3:15 - 4:30 Hands-on Session 3 (Sonia Pujol) Slicer DTI tractography tool
• 4:30 - 5:00 Users feedback - input from participants about this Workshop