DTI Tractography Challenge MICCAI 2011 Agenda

Tentative Agenda

• 8:30-10:00: Start of the competition on two neurosurgical cases: handing out password for data zip file, main processing time

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• 10:00-10:05: Welcoming remarks and Introduction
• 10:05-10:25: DTI Tractography validation challenge (Sonia Pujol), introduction
• 10:25-10:35: Presentation of the neurosurgical cases and healthy subjects datasets (Alex Golby/Sonia Pujol/ Sylvain Gouttard)
• 10:35-10:45: Coffee-Break
• 10:45-12:15: Tractography Session: Presentation of methods and results on pre-workshop datasets by contestants
  • 10:45-10:55: Multifiber Deterministic Streamline Tractography of the Corticospinal Tract Based on a New Diffusion Model. Olivier Commonwick, INRIA Rennes, France
  • 10:55-11:05: Involving machine learning and particule mass in the segmentation of cortico-spinal tract. Caroline Brun, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA
  • 11:05-11:15: Automated atlas-based seeding in cortico-spinal tractography. Maged Goubran, Robarts Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
  • 11:15-11:25: A Volumetric Apprach to extract Corticospinal tract in Diffusion Tensor MRI. Gopal Veni, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Salt Lake City, USA
  • 11:25-11:35: Fiber Tracking on Corticospinal Tract in Human Brain using an Intrinsic Unscented Kalman Filter. Guang Cheng, University of Florida, USA
  • 11:35-11:45: Global fiber-tracking based on Finsler distance. Antonio Tristan-Vega, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Boston, USA
  • 11:45-11:55: MITK Global Tractography - Application to the Corticospinal Tract. Peter Neher, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 11:55-12:05: Using Filtered Multitensor Tractography. Yundi Shi, UNC Chapell Hill, USA
• 12:05-13:30: Lunch Break
• 13:30: End of the Grand Challenge on two neurosurgical cases
• 13:30-14:30: Clinical case review: presentation of the Grand Challenge cases by contestants
• 14:30-15:15: Keynote Speaker Lecture: "IG Surgery, evolution, practice and current challenges" Dr. Arya Nabavi, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
• 15:15-16:15: Coffee Break and closed-review session
• 16:15-16:40: Presentation of the technical and clinical evaluation criteria (Sylvain Gouttard, Guido Gerig, Martin Styner, Sonia Pujol)
• 16:40-17:00: Presentation of the workshop results by organizers
• 17:00-17:30: Announcement of the results and discussion