Brown 2015

Introduction

The 3D Slicer Brown workshop is a full day course that will combine a series of lectures and hands-on sessions using the 3D Slicer software. The morning session will provide an introduction to the basics of data loading, 3D visualization and image registration. The afternoon session will focus on fundamental and practical aspects of Diffusion MRI analysis.

Workshop Organizers

• Course Faculty: Sonia Pujol, Ph.D.
• Local Host: Derek Merck, Ph.D.

Tentative Agenda

• 10:00-10:15 am Computer setup assistance by the instructors
• 10:15-10:30 am Welcome and Goals of the Workshop (Derek Merck)
• 10:30-11:00 am Introduction to the 3D Slicer software and community (Sonia Pujol)
• 11:00-12:00 pm Hands-on session 1: 3D Data Loading and Visualization (Sonia Pujol)
• 11:00-11:15 am Coffee break

• 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30 pm-3:00 pm Hands-on session 2: An Introduction to Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Sonia Pujol)
• 3:00pm -3:15 pm Coffee Break
• 3:15-4:15 pm Hands-on session 3: White Matter exploration for Neurosurgical Planning (Sonia Pujol)
• 4:15-4:45 pm DTI tractography: Validation Aspects (Sonia Pujol)
• 4:45-5:00 pm Questions from the audience and concluding remarks

Logistics

• Date: November 19, 2015
• Location: Brown University, Providence, RI

• Workshop Materials: The workshop will be a series of hands-on sessions using Slicer 4.5 release versions (http://slicer.org)
  • 3D Visualization Dataset
  • Slicer DTI tutorial Dataset
  • White Matter Exploration dataset
  • Registration dataset