FreeSurfer Tutorial and Workshop in São Paulo, Brazil

16, 17, & 18 (Sat.,Sun.,Mon.) April 2011

The FreeSurfer Development Team is hosting a three-day course for beginner and experienced users of FreeSurfer. Day 1 will be an introduction to FreeSurfer (or a refresher for those more experienced). Day 2 will cover everything you need to know for analyzing your data. Topics are listed below. There are only 30 available spots for this course. The course will not cover FS-FAST or fMRI analysis.

Computers will be provided to all pairs of registrants, which will have FreeSurfer and data already installed. Attendees will work in pairs (sharing a computer).

The course will be held at São Paulo healthcare complex of HCFMUSP.

Contact: Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Jr. ( ppj at netfilter dot com dot br )

Location

Hospital das Clínicas - .kmz - Avenida Dr Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil - (hotel,map)

The course will be held at the Cancer Center Building, in the 6th floor auditorium.

Monday, April 4th - Introduction / Single Subject / MRI / Longitudinal/ Troubleshooting

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:30 - 9:00

Course Registration

sign-in

staff

9:00 - 9:30

Unix Tutorial for FreeSurfer Users 1. Surrey, 2. O'Reilly

tutorial

Pedro Paulo

9:30 - 10:00

Intro to FreeSurfer Jargon

talk

Allison Stevens

10:00 - 10:30

Introduction to Freesurfer

talk

Nick Schmansky

10:30 - 10:45

break

10:45 - 11:45

Analyzing the Individual Subject

talk

Allison Stevens

11:45 - 12:45

Lunch

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--

12:45 - 1:15

Tkmedit/Tksurfer demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

1:15 - 2:15

Interaction with Individual Subject Data Tutorial

tutorial

staff

2:15 - 2:30

break

2:30- 3:00

Failure Modes

talk

Allison Stevens

3:00 - 4:00

Troubleshooting Demonstration, Troubleshooting Tutorial

tutorial

staff, Allison

4:00 - 4:30

Quality Checking a Recon

demo

Allison Stevens

4:30 - 5:00

FreeSurfer Applications

talk

Nick Schmansky

Tuesday, April 5th - Group Analysis/ ROIs / Registration / Diffusion

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

9:30 - 10:15

Registration Methods

talk

Lilla Zollei

10:15 - 10:30

break

10:30 - 11:00

Longitudinal FreeSurfer see also: LongitudinalProcessing

talk

Lilla Zollei

11:00 - 11:45

Longitudinal tutorial

tutorial

staff

11:45 - 1:00

Lunch

--

--

1:00 - 2:15

Diffusion Data Processing

talk

Lilla Zollei

2:15 - 2:30

break

2:30 - 3:00

Diffusion Data Processing

talk

Lilla Zollei

3:00 - 4:00

Diffusion Processing Tutorial

tutorial

staff

4:00 - 4:45

ROI Analysis

talk

Allison Stevens

4:45 - 5:15

ROI Analysis Tutorial

tutorial

staff

Wednesday, April 6th - Multi-Modal / Future Directions / fMRI / Q&A

9:00 - 10:00

Group Analysis / GLM / Multiple Comparisons

talk

Lilla Zollei

10:00 - 10:30

QDEC demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

10:30 - 10:45

break

10:45 - 11:45

Group Analysis / Multiple Comparisons - mri_glmfit Tutorial

tutorial

staff

10:45 - 11:45

Group Analysis - qdec Tutorial

tutorial

staff

11:45 - 1:00

Lunch

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--

1:00 - 2:15

FSFAST

talk

Doug Greve

2:15 - 2:30

break & Evaluation

2:30 - 3:30

FSFAST

tutorial

staff

3:30 - 4:00

Question and Answer Session, FsQuiz

talk

staff