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FreeSurfer Tutorial and Workshop

Course Policies

Getting the tutorial data

Please DO NOT try to download the tutorial data during the course! We have copies of this data stored on servers located in the course room. Attempting to download this data from the public link (this link) during the course presents excessive and unnecessary load on our network, and likely will fail due to this load. Please contact a staff member for help in getting this data if needed outside of the course.

Wifi

You may connect to any of the following wifi networks in the classroom area (all networks use the same password):

About the Course

The FreeSurfer tools deal with two main types of data: volumetric data (volumes of voxels) and surface data (polygons that tile a surface). The talks and tutorials should familiarize you with FreeSurfer's volume and surface processing streams. The tutorials also describe some of FreeSurfer's tools for registering volumetric datasets, performing group analysis on morphology data, and integrating multi-modal output with FreeSurfer (overlaying color-coded parametric maps onto the cortical surface and visualizing plotted results).

Note: During the tutorial sessions, you will be shown a variety of commands. Only those that appear in a box should be copy-and-pasted into the terminal. They will look like this:

command arg1 arg2

Tip for Mac users: The tutorials often refer to keyboard shortcuts (such as Alt+v) which do not work on a Mac. For a list of equivalent keyboard commands on a Mac, please refer to MacCommands.

Online Question Forum

Videos of Lectures

Throughout the course, you may post questions here (anonymously or not).

You can find videos of the lectures here.

Course Schedule

Spring 2020 FreeSurfer Course: March 30th - April 2nd

8:00 - 9:30am Registration Desk Open

* Indicates an optional technical talk. These talks have great content. They are related to, but not directly about, the FreeSurfer processing stream.
** Indicates an optional talk that covers basic/beginner material.
*** Indicates optional extra time to work on tutorials and/or ask questions about your own data.

Research backgrounds of past and present staff members can be found on the LCN website.

Monday, March 30th - Introduction / Single Subject Analysis / ROI Analysis

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:30 - 8:40

** Intro to Linux for FreeSurfer Users

talk/demo

Matthew Larrabee

8:40 - 9:00

** Unix for FreeSurfer Users

tutorial

9:00 - 9:15

** Intro to FreeSurfer Jargon

talk

Caroline Magnain

9:15 - 9:25

break

9:25 - 10:10

Introduction to Freesurfer

talk

Bruce Fischl

10:10 - 11:20

Analyzing the Individual Subject

talk

Doug Greve

11:20 - 11:40

break

11:40 - 12:00

Freeview demonstration

demo

Bram Diamond

12:00 - 12:30

Introduction to FreeSurfer Output

tutorial

staff

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch (Suggestions for where to eat)

1:30 - 1:45

Introduction to FreeSurfer Output

tutorial

staff

1:45 - 2:15

Surface-based Analysis: Intersubject Registration & Smoothing

talk

Diyva Varadarajan

2:15 - 2:35

break

2:35 - 3:05

ROI Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

3:05 - 3:50

ROI Analysis Tutorial

tutorial

staff

3:50 - 4:20

Structural & Functional Data Integration

talk

David Salat

4:20 - 4:50

Practice Working with Data

tutorial

staff

Answers to online questions here

Tuesday, March 31st - Group Analysis / Longitudinal Analysis / Troubleshooting

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Morning Help Session

research technicians

9:00 - 9:45

Group Analysis

talk

Viviana Siless

9:45 - 10:25

Group Analysis Tutorial (FSGD Examples)

tutorial

staff

10:25 - 10:45

break

10:45 - 11:30

FreeSurfer Troubleshooting

talk

Bruce Fischl

11:30 - 12:30

Troubleshooting Tutorial

tutorial

staff

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:15

Quality Checking a Recon

talk

Leah Morgan

2:15 - 2:55

Multiple Comparisons

talk

Doug Greve

2:55 - 3:25

Multiple Comparisons Tutorial

tutorial

staff

3:25 - 4:05

break

4:05 - 4:50

Longitudinal FreeSurfer

talk

Malte Hoffmann

4:50 - 5:30

LongitudinalTutorial

tutorial

staff

5:30 - 7:30

Social Night in the atrium of Bldg. 149

Snacks and Beverages Served

Answers to online questions here

Wednesday, April 1st - Multimodal Analysis / Diffusion Analysis / fMRI Analysis / MR Acquisition

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Morning Help Session

research technicians

9:00 - 9:30

* Intro to MR (SpinBench)

talk

Robert Frost

9:30 - 10:00

Multi-Modal Integration, Part 1: Registration

talk

Aina Frau-Pascual

10:00 - 10:30

Multi-Modal Integration Tutorial, Part 1

tutorial

staff

10:30 - 10:50

break

10:50 - 11:05

* Intro to Diffusion MRI Physics

talk

Robert Frost

11:05 - 11:45

Introduction to Diffusion MRI

talk

Anastasia Yendiki

11:45 - 12:30

Diffusion Processing Tutorial

tutorial

staff

12:30 - 1:30

Lunch

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1:30 - 2:20

Tracts Constrained by UnderLying Anatomy (TRACULA)

talk

Anastasia Yendiki

2:20 - 3:20

TRACULA Tutorial

tutorial

staff

3:20 - 3:40

break

3:40 - 3:50

Longitudinal TRACULA

talk

Anastasia Yendiki

3:50 - 4:50

Basics of fMRI Analysis

talk

Jingyuan Chen

4:50 - 5:30

* MRI Acquisition Methods

talk

Andre van der Kouwe

Answers to online questions here The FreeSurfer Evaluation is here!

Thursday, April 2nd - fMRI Analysis / Multimodal Analysis / Future Directions

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Morning Help Session

research technicians

9:00 - 9:30

FSFAST, Part 1: Preprocessing

talk

Doug Greve

9:30 - 10:00

FSFAST Tutorial, Part 1

tutorial

staff

10:00 - 10:20

break & Evaluation

10:20 - 11:20

FSFAST, Part 2: GLM Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

11:20 - 12:00

FSFAST Tutorial, Part 2

tutorial

staff

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

1:00 - 1:30

* An Overview of Registration Methods

talk

Lilla Zöllei

1:30 - 1:45

Resting State fMRI

talk

Doug Greve

1:45 - 2:15

Multi-Modal Integration, Part 2: Group Analysis

talk

Doug Greve

2:15 - 3:00

Multi-Modal Integration Tutorial, Part 2

tutorial

staff

3:00 - 3:15

break

3:15 - 3:30

* FreeSurfer vs. VBM

talk

Doug Greve

3:30 - 4:30

* Future Directions

talk

FS Development Team

4:30 - 5:00

Question & Answer Session

staff

Answers to online questions here
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