Educational Workshop on Resting State Connectivity

  

 

Magdeburg – September 3rd and 4th 2012

We are proud to announce the Resting State Educational Workshop taking place right before the 3^rd Biennial Resting State Conference – September 5-7 2012.

The 2-day educational workshop, organized together with the ESMRMB – Lectures on MR Series, will feature the most relevant subjects of resting state imaging, including physiology, data analysis, and applications. The target audience, researchers with existing knowledge on fMRI with interest to broaden and substantiate their knowledge on resting state fMRI, will get to experience focus lectures and hands on courses by international experts in the field. For more information on the program and speakers, visit www.restingstate.com. For registration, also visit http://www.esmrmb.org. The registration fee for PhD students and physicians in training is € 190 for ESMRMB members and € 285 for non-members, which includes access to the workshop, a course syllabus, full catering of lunches and coffee breaks, and a welcome dinner.

Biennial Resting State Conference

Magdeburg – September 5-7 2012.

Right after the educational course, Magdeburg will host the 3rd international resting state conference, welcoming international experts in this growing field.

The Biennial Resting State Meeting Series was initiated as an expert meeting on all aspects of this fascinating technique in Magdeburg in 2008. After the great success of our last biennial meeting in Milwaukee in 2010, the 3rd Resting State Conference now returned to the birthplace of this unique conference.

The Resting State Meeting aims at bringing together key researchers working on the physiological background or analysis of resting state data in a familial and highly interactive setting.

The sessions for both the educational course and the main conference are structured into 3 major themes: Theme 1 will deal with recent advances and methodological issues in resting state data analysis. Theme 2 will cover the physiology and physical background of low frequency fluctuations including electrophysiological correlates, the impact of physiological noise and insights from pharmacological challenges. Theme 3 will focus on applications using resting state fMRI with a specific focus on psychiatric and neurological diseases.

Growing with the field and its diversity, we invite researchers working on all related aspects of this fascinating phenomenon to share ideas and insights from their disciplines, including clinical applications.

Each day of the main conference will consist of two morning and two afternoon sessions where specific emphasis will be put on discussion and debates on hot topics and ongoing controversies in the field of resting state. Additional lunch symposia will be paralleled by poster receptions on the major fields of resting state:

Methods and Acquisition

Data Analysis

Physiology

Animal Imaging

Pharmacology

Multimodal Resting State Studies

Applications in Psychology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuroradiology

 

Similar to the previous meetings, the scientific program will be extended towards evening social events providing ample room for intensive interactions and communication.

Abstract submission and online registration for the 3^rd Biennial Resting State Meeting opened March 1st and abstract submission will still be possible until April 30th.

Please save the date and make sure to register in time. Abstract submission requires registration for the conference. Safe on early bird registration fees (until April 30^th): The registration fee of € 395 includes access to the full meeting, welcome reception and full catering of lunches and coffee breaks for all three days. 

The satellite educational course on September 3^rd and 4^th will be restricted to a limited number of attendees so make sure to register in time for both events.

For more information including a list of our confirmed speakers please visit www.restingstate.com.

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We are looking forward to see you in Magdeburg

On behalf of all organizers

Martin Walter, MD

Chair - 3^rd Biennial Resting State Conference

Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (Canlab),

Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology &

Otto-von-Guericke-University,

Magdeburg, Germany

Ilya Veer

Co-organizer ESMRMB Resting State Educational Workshop

Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC)

Leiden, The Netherlands

2012 MICCAI Grand Challenge and Workshop on Multi-Atlas Labeling

  

 

Acropolis Convention and Exhibition Centre, Nice France            October 5th, 2012 - AM Session

Website: https://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/workshop2012/                      Paper submission deadline: June 12th, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multi-atlas techniques are becoming increasingly integral to numerous medical image computing approaches and are now expanding into for diverse anatomical regions. The proposed workshop will present a forum to discuss recent advances in multi-atlas techniques. The discussion will focus on new methods/applications of multi-atlas labeling and comparative evaluations of methods on a newly public, manually labeled dataset. First, we will host a discussion on methods, theory, and applications in which traditional MICCAI format papers will be solicited. Second, we will host a challenge on whole-brain labeling which will provide an opportunity to characterize multiple labels, inter-label relationships, and heterogeneous structures (sponsored by NeuroMorphometrics). Submissions will be encouraged using a limited 3-4 page format.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

* Full-length papers are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

* Multi-atlas registration

* Statistical methods for label fusion

* Theory and applications with discrete, continuous, or non-traditional label types

* Manifolds theory and applications for voxel, volume, surface, or non-traditional multi-atlas representations

* Atlas design, selection, and exclusion

* Multi-atlas informed and augmented approaches, including shape modeling

* Applications of multi-atlas methods for segmentation and labeling

* Visualization and hypothesis exploration approaches using multi-atlases

Manuscripts may not be accepted at the main conference or submitted to any other MICCAI 2012 workshop.

ORGANIZERS

Bennett Landman, Vanderbilt University

Simon Warfield, Harvard Medical School

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Aljabar, Imperial College London; Dzung Pham, Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Hakmook Kang, Vanderbilt University; Arno Klein, Columbia University; Torsten Rohlfing, Stanford University; Dinggang Shen UNC Chapel Hill; T. Robin Langerak, Utrecht University ; Paul Thompson, UCLA; Paul Yushkevich, UPENN

IMPORTANT DATES

Technical Manuscripts Due (Extended MICCAI Format) - 6/12/2012

Challenge Testing Procedure Available - 6/1/2012-6/8/2012

Challenge Manuscripts Due (Abbreviated MICCAI Format) - 6/12/2012

We look forward to seeing you in Nice!

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Bennett Landman, Ph.D., bennett.landman@vanderbilt.edu

Assistant Professor

     Department of Electrical Engineering (primary)

     Department of Biomedical Engineering

     Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

     Vanderbilt University, School of Engineering

Director of the Center for Computational Imaging

     Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science

Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) Sample

 

 

The International Neuroimaging Data-Sharing Initiative (INDI), in coordination with the Child Mind Institute, announces the public release of the "Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE) Sample" via the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project (http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/abide/index.html).

 

Drs. Adriana Di Martino (NYU Child Study Center; consortium coordinator) and Stewart Mostofsky (Kennedy Krieger Institute) have assembled ABIDE as an international consortium explicitly dedicated to the sharing of previously collected resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (R-fMRI) and morphometric data for autism. To date, the effort has brought together 20 samples from 16 contributing sites, yielding an aggregate dataset of 539 individuals with autism and 573 typical controls. The effort builds upon the model of the highly successful ADHD-200 Consortium (http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/indi/adhd200/), though providing an extensive array of phenotypic characterizations common to nearly all sites, that far exceeds it predecessor. Key diagnostic and assessment schedules (e.g., ADOS, ADIS), psychometric testing (e.g., IQ) and a variety of additional questionnaires, commonly employed in the autism community, are being shared along with brain imaging data.

 

In addition to distributing ABIDE datasets in .tar and .csv file formats via NITRC as is customary for the FCP, the INDI team has recruited the efforts of leading informatics platforms including COINS: http://coins.mrn.org; LORIS: http://cbrain.mcgill.ca/loris; LONI IDA: http://pipeline.loni.ucla.edu/; NITRC-IR/XNAT: http://www.nitrc.org/ir. They have each agreed to host the ABIDE datasets prepared by the INDI team. Such coordination is intended to give users an opportunity to sample emerging technologies and explore the value of these platforms not only for sharing, but also for their own internal infrastructure.