Mbirn: Morphometry BIRN Meeting, July 27 2005, Teleconference

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  • Mon Oct 17, 9am, San Diego
  • BIRN All Hands Meeting


Action items and summary notes (Wed Jul 27, 2005)



  • Announcements
    • Spring 2006 Morph BIRN All Hands Meeting
      • Scheduled for March 18-20, Sedona AZ to follow immediately after Spring Brain Conference 2006
      • No Spring Brain Conference proposals considered given the short deadline-

UPDATE: The deadline was extended and an ALL BIRN proposal was submitted by Randy L. Gollub see Mbirn: 2006 Spring Brain Conference Symposia Proposal. No word yet on whether it has been accepted. 8/21/05 RLG 

Participants:
 MGH: B. Rosen, R. Gollub, D. Kennedy, S. Murphy, J. Jovicich
 BWH: S. Pieper
 JHU: A. Kolasny
 UCSD: C. Fennema Notestine
 Duke: A. Song
 BIRN CC: J. Grethe
 UCLA: nobody
 Duke: nobody
 UCI: nobody
 MIT: nobody
 NCRR: E. Collier
  • Proposed Agenda for Morph BIRN Oct 17 meeting, San Diego
    • Morning
      • mBIRN Welcome
      • Progress Reports from scientific application tests (MAD- C. Fennema-Notestine, SASHA A. Kolasny, 15 minutes each and MIRIAD/BELL- J. MacFall 20 minutes)
        • Each presention to consist of a minimum of four slides, one each for 'project goals', 'achievements since Oct04', 'AHM2005 discussion items', and 'Oct 2006 goals' with additional results slides as needed.
      • Coffee break
      • Progress Reports from Core Projects (Calibr- J. Jovicich, AVI- S. Pieper, Informatics- D. Kennedy; 15 minutes each, Workflows- S. Murphy, 10 minutes)
        • Each presention to consist of a minimum of three slides, one each for 'project goals', 'achievements since Oct04', 'AHM2005 discussion items', and 'Oct 2006 goals' with additional results slides as needed.
      • Lunch
    • Afternoon
      • Three parallel tracks for the afternoon are proposed:
  1. MRI Acquisition and Analysis issues
    Leader: J. Jovicich
    Attendees: S. Pieper, S. Mori, A. Song, A. Dale, J. MacFall, R. Gollub, A. Johnson, C. Fennema-Notestine & colleagues
    • Diffusion registration issues (VETSA, BELL projects)
    • Drawing tools: best practices
    • MRI Calibration
  2. Workflow for full afternoon
    Leader: S. Murphy
    Attendees: M. Mendis, A. Kolasny, J. Grethe, A. Toga, M. Pan, I. Altintas, others from SDSC to be invited by BIRN-CC and S. Murphy
  3. Database group for full afternoon content and timing to be integrated with F-BIRN
    Leader: D. Kennedy
    Attendees: H. Schmidt, D. Marcus, D. Keator, D. Wei, K. Crawford, B. Ozyurt, B. Boyd


  • Actions to prepare for Morph BIRN Oct 17 meeting, San Diego
    • Site PI or designee to
  1. Confirm above lists of attendees and update this page to reflect actual meeting attendees
  2. Confirm or replace designated speakers
  3. Confirm responsible people for Morph BIRN's Oct 04 - Oct 05 written progress report, due September 16th. Please use the following template: Morphometry BIRN Progress report template



  • Preparations for Society for Neuroscience's BIRN booth
    • Each site, please let Jorge know of MorphBIRN people who will attend the SFN meeting. We would like to check availability with them to see if the can help manning (or womanning) the BIRN booth.
      • Current mBIRN volunteers: R. Gollub, J. Jovicich, C. Fennema-Notestine, D. Marcus
      • We'd appreciate a few more!


  • Dissemination of Morph BIRN public data & tools agreement (SFN 2005 target)
    • DATA
      • Morph BIRN multi-site human structural and phantom calibration data
      • Possibly (need to check), DTI calibration datasets
      • MIRIAD data
      • BIRN Portal link to Randy Buckner's public dataset
    • SOFTWARE TOOLS & TUTORIALS
      • Distortion correction from image gradient non-linearities
      • B0 and eddy current correction code for diffusion MRI
      • Links to 3D Slicer tools & tutorials
      • Links to Freesurfer tools & tutorials (tutorial includes 40 brains from Randy Buckner)
      • Links to LDDMM tools & tutorials


  • Topics that could not be discussed due to limited meeting attendance
    • MAD project interactions with ADNI calibration & analysis (Anders/Randy)
    • Mouse/Human Integration AHM discussion group
    • Image Calibration AHM discussion group
    • Statistics/Data Mining AHM discussion group


Highlights


  • Teratrid 2005 News advertises BIRN SASHA Project: Identifying Brain Disorders with TeraGrid
  • A. Song's manuscript on B0 & eddy current distortion correction: recommended for publication pending revision at NeuroImage
  • 3D Slicer/Freesurfer integration, jointly with NA-MIC: scheduled for completion mid Aug. with workshop at MGH on Sep 16
  • Other?



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