Los Angeles, USA: October 26-27, 2015

BrainSuite/Brainstorm two-day training session.

General information

Where: USC University Park Campus | Campus map
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Building (EEB), Ground floor, Room 132
3740 McClintock Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90089

When:
BrainSuite: Monday Oct 26, 9am-4:30pm
Brainstorm: Tuesday Oct 27, 8:30am-5:30pm

Instructors:
BrainSuite: David Shattuck (UCLA), Richard Leahy (USC), Anand Joshi (USC), Justin Haldar (USC), Soyoung Choi (USC), Shantanu Joshi (UCLA), Chitresh Bhushan (USC).
Brainstorm: Francois Tadel, Elizabeth Bock (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill)

Target audience: Everyone interested in multimodal brain imaging. On day 1, the course will feature anatomical MRI analyses (from tissue segmentation to diffusion, tractography and connectivity. Day 2 will be dedicated to MEG/EEG imaging.

Participation fees: Free

Maximum attendance: 50

Requirements

The participants are required to bring a laptop (an external mouse will add to your comfort). In order to make the session as efficient as possible, we ask all the attendees to download, install and test the software and sample dataset on their laptops prior to the workshop.

Please read carefully the following instructions:
How to prepare your laptop for the training

Day 1: BrainSuite

9.00-10:00am: Set-up

• Come early if you need help setting up Brainsuite on your laptop

10:00-10:15am: Brainsuite overview

10:15-11:15am: Brainsuite GUI: surface extraction and visualization

• Overview
• Cortical surface extraction, interactive refinement and parameter selection.
• Visualization of volume and surface data

11:15-12:00pm: Atlases, surface and volume labelling

• Overview
• The BCI-DNI atlas and creating your own atlases
• Running Svreg – surface and volume labelling
• Output files and their uses

12:00-1:00pm: Lunch break & invidual exploration of test data with Brainsuite

1:00-2:00pm: Processing diffusion data

• Alignment and distortion-correction of diffusion images with BDP
• Computing tensors and ODFs with BDP
• Generation and visualization of fiber tracks in Brainsuite
• ROI-based connectivity analysis with Brainsuite using standard and custom atlases

2.00-2.30pm: Hands on exploration of diffusion data

2.30-3.30pm: Batch processing and group statistical analysis

• Command line and batch processing with Brainsuite
• Group analysis: available statistical models and their uses
• Sample data and exercises: surface-based morphometry, ROI-based stats, tensor-based morphometry

3.30pm-4.30pm: Hands on exploration of statistical analysis package

Day 2: Brainstorm

8:30-9:00am: Breakfast and laptop clinic

• Come early for assistance in installing the material for the training session

9:00-10:00am: Brainstorm overview

• Software architecture
• Typical data workflow

10:00-10:45am: Hands-on training begins

• Database explorer
• Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
• Introduction to anatomical atlases

10:45-11:00am: Coffee break

11:00-1:00pm: Hands-on training

• Co-registration MEG/MRI
• Reviewing continuous recordings
• Artifact detection and correction
• Filtering and epoching
• Averaging, observation of a typical somatosensory evoked response

1:00-2:00pm: Lunch break (meal not provided)

2:00-3:30pm: Hands-on training resumes

• Head modeling, cortical source reconstruction
• Definition of ROIs, tracking the processing of the sensory information at the cortex level
• Time-frequency analysis

3:30-4:00pm: Coffee break

4:00-5:30pm: Advanced topics and open discussion

• Functional connectivity
• Group analysis and statistics
• Advanced scripting interface

Registration form

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