SanteFe.Tractography.Conference

NA-MIC Contrasting Tractography Methods Conference Goals

• To educate attendees in the fundamentals of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) 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, an emerging standard endorsed by the NA-MIC and BIRN* communities).
  
• To provide hands on tutorials in the use of NA-MIC DTI analysis tools.
  
• To establish contact between NA-MIC Tookit experts (users and developers) and basic and clinical researchers in the global neuroimaging community.
  

Conference Logistics

• October 1-2, 2007, 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM
  
• The workshop is being held TBD
  

Registration

• To register, TBD

• Questions about logistics should be addressed to Sonia Pujol (spujol at bwh.harvard.edu). Questions about content of the Conference should be addressed to Randy Gollub (rgollub at partners.org).

• This Conference is supported by the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant U54 EB005149. Information on the National Centers for Biomedical Computing can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/bioinformatics.

Conference Attendees

• Guido Gerig, PhD, University of North Carolina
• Randy Gollub, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Department of Psychiatry and Martinos Center, Department of Radiology, Massachussets General Hospital)
• Sonia Pujol, PhD, Harvard Medical School (Surgical Planning Laboratory, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Preparation for Workshop -- Important Information for all attendees

Suggested background reading for workshop:

Suggestions?

Please complete the following items prior to the workshop. This is hands-on Conference. All participants must come with their own computer loaded with the calibration data and the results of their own algorithm analysis.

• Datasets<nowiki>

Agenda

October 1, 8:30 AM - 5 PM

• 8:30 - 8:40 AM Goals of Conference
• 8:40 - 9:40 AM Presentations of Results from each of the participants
• 9:40 - 10:15 Discussion
• 10:15 -10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 11:45 Expert speaker presentation on methods of statistical comparison of similar data, who?
• 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch together at local restaurant
• 1:00 - 3:00 ?
• 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 5:00

October 2, 8:30 AM - 5 PM

• 8:30 - 8:40 AM Synopsis of yesterday's accomplishments
• 8:40 - 10:15 '
• 10:15 -10:30 Coffee Break
• 10:30 - 11:45 ?
• 11:45 - 1:00 Lunch together at local restaurant
• 1:00 - 3:00 ?
• 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break
• 3:15 - 5:00 Formulation of action plan and assignment of tasks