AHM 2006:Planning Notes

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Sunday, Jan 8 2006, 8am-5pm

Day 0: Pre-AHM Workshop

• 7:30am: Breakfast
• 8am-noon: ITK for developers
• 8am-noon LONI Pipleline Tutorial for Users (Please add your name if you will be attending)
• (10:30-10:45am Coffee Break)
• noon-1pm: lunch break
• 1pm-4:30pm: Validation Workshop
• 4:30-5:30pm: Neuroanatomy for computer scientists (Randy Gollub)

Monday, Jan 9 2006, 8am-5.30pm

• Day 1: Progress in year 1. Year 2 plans, part 1:
• 07:30-08.00: Breakfast
• 08:00-08.30 Introduction and welcome Rons intro
• 08.30-09.30 Core 1 update: Eric Grimson 1 hour
• 09.30-10.30 Core 2 update: Bill Lorensen 1 hour
• 10:30-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-11.30 Programmers week results: Tina Kapur 30 minutes
• 11.30-12.00 noon Training Workshops Update: Sonia Pujol 30 minutes
• 12.00 noon-01.00: lunch break
• 01.00-02.00 Core 3.1 update: Martha Shenton et al.
  • retrospective data,
  • IRB,
  • prospective data,
  • identification of tractable problems,
  • progress in adopting the NA-MIC kit,
  • issues with the NA-MIC kit
• 02.00-03.00 Core 3.2 update: Steve Potkin et al.
  • retrospective data,
  • IRB,
  • prospective data,
  • identification of tractable problems,
  • progress in adopting the NA-MIC kit,
  • issues with the NA-MIC kit
• 03.00-03:30: Coffee Break
• 03.30-04.20 discussion and identification of core 1 / core 3 projects (Eric and Martha)
• 04.20-04.30 Collaborator grants: Ron
• 04:30-05:30: DTI Calibration and validation, collaboration with Morphometry BIRN (R. Gollub/ G. Gerig)
  • See these Wiki pages for background information and current status reports Morphometry BIRN DTI Calibration and Morphometry BIRN DTI Analysis Tools
  • possible guest discussants, Allen Song (Duke) and Susumu Mori (JHU)
  • presentation of the challenges and need for DTI image acquisition characterization
  • progess made this year in BIRN (shared data, completed FA analysis, initial tractography reproducibilty using DTI Studio)
  • opportunities for collaboration with NA-MIC (tractography and beyond)
    • metrics for quantitative validation of tractography including the metric distance measures between fiber bundles, etc
    • statistical analysis of tensors
    • expert neuroanatomical validation

Tuesday, Jan 10 2006, 8am-1pm

• Day 2: Planning for year 2, part 2:
• 07.30-08.00 Breakfast
• 08.00-08.30 Copyright and licenses: Steve Pieper
• 08.30-09.00 plans for training and dissemination events: Randy Gollub, Tina Kapur
• 09.00-10.00 Core 1 to core 3 projects for the upcoming year: Eric Grimson, Martha Shenton, Steve Potkin et al.
• 10.00-10.30 NIH presentation: big P, SDIWG: Peter Lyster?
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
• 11.00-12.00 fMRI Polina Golland
• 12.00-01.00 lunch break

External Advisory Board Meeting: 1pm-5pm

• 01.00-03.00 Site PI's present to the EAB: who are you, how does NA-MIC fit into your portfolio, who works on NA-MIC and what are their functions, 5 minutes per group

• Core 1
  • MIT
  • U Utah
  • UNC
  • Georgia Tech
  • MGH
• Core 2
  • GE GRC
  • Kitware
  • Isomics
  • UCLA
  • UCSD
• Core 3
  • Harvard
  • Dartmouth
  • UCI
  • U Toronto
• Cores 4-6
  • Service: Kitware
  • Dissemination: Isomics
  • Training: MGH
• 03.00-03.30pm: Coffee Break
• 03.30-04.00 Discussion of Site PI's with EAB
• 04.00-05.00 Closed session of the EAB
• 05.00 adjourn

Programming Half Week

• Starts Jan 10 afternoon, ends Friday, Jan 13th by noon.
• See Programming Half Week Page for details on goals, projects, agenda, participants