Alzheimer Imaging Consortium Educational Workshop
Getting started With Neuroimaging Analysis
Details
| Date | Friday 29th July 2022 |
| Time | 1-5 PM PST |
| Location | Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, CA |
| Format | In-person workshop |
Target Audience
This hands-on workshop can serve as a beginners or refresher course for established investigators, clinicians, and trainees involved in the use of imaging techniques in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, related disorders and normal aging.
Requirements
Registrants will be required to bring their own laptops. We will be asking attendees for specifications for the laptops, so that we can best manage the workshop. We will all be using a standard environment for this workshop, using a virtual machine (VM), either on your laptop or on the cloud. This ensures that everyone will be seeing the exact same screen for these lessons, regardless of if you are using a Mac or Windows operating system. You can find out more how to access this virtual machine in the Connecting section.
Workshop description
The workshop will provide practical information and an enhanced understanding on how to work with and analyze medical imaging data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron imaging tomography (PET).
The initial portion of the workshop will focus on the understanding of the basic structure of an image, how to traverse images, data extraction, and how voxels relate to world coordinates.
Subsequent lectures will be followed by interactive sessions to demonstrate simple workflows including tissue segmentation, registration, and pre-processing steps of fMRI or DTI. The objective of the workshop is to ensure participants gain an in-depth appreciation of commonly used interpretive clinical and or research applications for each methodology.
Agenda
This is the tentative agenda for the workshop. You can find links to all of the individual lessons below. Much of it will be self-paced with facilitation by the members of the organizing committee, so if people want to focus more time on some areas than others, they are welcome to.
| Time | Topic | Leader(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 PM | Opening Remarks | David Cash |
| 1:15 PM | Getting started: command line and image data | Ludovica Griffanti, David Cash |
| 2 PM | Structural MRI | Alexis Moscoso, Tobey Betthauser |
| 2:45 PM | Break | |
| 3 PM | Q&A/Progress check | |
| 3:15 PM | Pre-processing: fMRI | Luigi Lorenzini |
| 4 PM | Pre-processing: DTI | Alexa Pichet Binette |
| 4:45 PM | Closing Remarks | David Cash |
Organizing Committee
The following committee members have been developing and testing the content, and will be on-hand to lead the sessions and assist individuals.
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| David M. Cash, Ph.D. | UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, United Kingdom |
| Luigi Lorenzini | Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands |
| Alexis Moscoso | University of Göthenborg, Sweden |
| Ludovica Griffanti | University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
| Tobey Betthauser | University of Wisconsin, U.S.A. |
| Alexa Pichet Binette | Lund University, Sweden |
Acknowledgements
These lessons are developed as part of the Health and Biosciences IDEAS project, which is a training initiative funded by UKRI Innovation Scholars (MR/V03863X/1)
Thanks to the generous support of the Alzheimer’s Association, the International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART) and the ISTAART Neuroimaging Professional Interest Area in terms of travel funding for the organizers.
The data for this course comes from the Open Access Series of Imaging Studies(OASIS) dataset. Many thanks to Pamela LaMontaigne and the OASIS team as Washington University for their support with the data.
Special thanks to Christian Haselgrove (NITRC-CE), Courtney Waugh (Amazon), and Mark Watts (UCL) for their support in creating the infrastructure for this project.