Toulouse, France: Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
A 4-hour session, including lectures and a hands-on workshop on Brainstorm, will be featured as part of the MicMac Conference in Toulouse, France. This scientific event focuses on intracranial electrophysiological recordings using micro- and macro-electrodes. The hands-on session will explore Brainstorm's features for sEEG analysis, allowing participants to learn how to use the software effectively. Attendees will also gain access to Brainstorm's new tools and practice using them on their personal laptops.
General information
| Where | Toulouse, France |
| When | March 19th, 2025, 10:30-16:00 |
| Registration | Please visit this page. |
| Organizers | MicMac 2025 |
| Instructors | Takfarinas Medani, and Anne Sophie Dubarry |
| Audience | Users interested in analyzing sEEG recordings using Brainstorm. Some experience with iEEG and signal processing is recommended. Teaching in English. Number of participants: XX |
| Slides | Intro slides | ?Walkthrough | ?Survey |
Requirements
In order to make the workshop as efficient as possible, we ask all the attendees to: download, install and test the software and download the workshop dataset on their laptops prior to the workshop.
We highly recommend bringing an external mouse on the workshop day. Most of the manipulations are done with the mouse, and some involve an intense use of the scrolling operation.
Installing Brainstorm
Please read carefully the following instructions on:
preparing your laptop for the training
Workshop dataset
In this workshop, we will work on a SEEG dataset recorded at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at UTHealth Houston. The link to download the data and protocol will be provided soon.
Program
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025
| 10:00-10:30 | Registration & Breakfast |
| 10:30-11:15 | Lectures: Brainstorm Overview & BioPhysics of SEEG |
| 11:15-11:20 | Workshop Preparation |
| 11:20-12:00 | Tutorial – Hands-On Brainstorm - Introduction to Brainstorm Interface: Anatomy Data Database explorer MRI volumes, surfaces Anatomical parcellations CT volumes Coregistration: pre- / post-implantation images |
| 12:00-12:30 | Tutorial – Hands-On Brainstorm - Introduction to Brainstorm Interface: sEEG Functional Data. Manual marking of SEEG contacts on post-implantation image Automatic marking of SEEG contacts on post-implantation image Automatic anatomical labeling of SEEG contacts Reviewing continuous SEEG recordings Montages and management of event markers |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-14:30 | SEEG: Analysis ==>Import precomputed Brainstorm protocol<== sEEG Montage Configuration sEEG Frequency Analysis and Filtering Compute Forward Model (aka the Head or Lead Field Model) Compute Noise Covariance Matrix Compute Inverse Model View Source Results Atlases and Scouts |
| 14:30-16:00 | SEEG: Advanced Analysis Modeling interictal spikes Modeling ictal wave within the seizure window Modeling ictal onset with LVFA |
| 16:00 | End of the workshop & Starting of the Main Conference |
| 16:30-17:30 | Epileptogenicity index: a tool for ictal SEEG signal analysis – Julia Scholly, Fabrice Bartolomei |
| 17:30-18:30 | Diving into HFO analyses – Jonathan Curot |
| 18:30-19:30 | The PHRC NenuFaR great debate: clinical usefulness of HFO? – Fabrice Bartolomei, Jonathan Curot, Philippe Kahane |
We will provide a ?detailed step-by-step walkthrough of the data analyses performed at the training. In addition, results obtained in this workshop can be replicated with this script (to be updated).
Bring your own data
At the end of the session, the Brainstorm team will dedicate their time to address participants' requests. We encourage you to bring in your own sample of data that you would be interested in processing with Brainstorm.
The file formats that can be read by Brainstorm are listed on the Introduction page. Please contact us in advance if you are not sure your dataset can be imported in Brainstorm. If you do not have data available, you may continue to use the tutorial dataset used in the present workshop.
Troubleshooting
For any technical problem, please contact Takfarinas Medani ( medani@usc.edu )
We provide a detailed step-by-step walkthrough of the data analyses performed at the training. In addition, results obtained in this workshop can be replicated with this script.