SanteFe.Tractography.Conference

Goals

• To compare and contrast the results of tractography algorithms included in or supported by the NA-MIC Toolkit on a benchmark dataset of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) data.
  
• To develop a framework for systematically and statistically comparing and contrasting these outcome measures.
  
• To initiate development of tutorials for tractography algorithms not yet in the NAMIC Training Compendium.
  
• To initiate methods for calibration and validation of tractography algorithms.
  

Conference Logistics

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

Registration

• To register, add your name to the list of attendees below and make your flight and hotel reservations

• 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:

1. Guido's 2006 AHM presentation on Validation strategies for DTI analysis
2. [If any of you attended the 2005 ISMRM Workshop on Methods for Quantitative Diffusion of MRI of Human Brain and can get us access to the detailed summary, I have seen it and it might be very useful]
3. Presentations by and Fitzpatrick from the MICCAI 2003 Tutorial on Validation in Medical Image Processing
4. Peruse the webpages associated with the Retrospective Image Registration Evaluation project
5. anyone have access to this?

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.

Benchmark Datasets

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

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