FreeSurfer Course, April 1-4, 2019

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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 extra time to work on tutorials and/or ask questions about your own data.

Monday, April 1st - Introduction / Single Subject Analysis / ROI Analysis

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:30 - 9:00

** Intro to Linux for FreeSurfer Users

talk/demo

Morgan Fogarty

9:00 - 9:15

** Intro to FreeSurfer Jargon

talk

Caroline Magnain

9:15 - 9:30

break

9:30 - 10:15

Introduction to Freesurfer

talk

Bruce Fischl

10:15 - 11:25

Analyzing the Individual Subject

talk

Doug Greve

11:25 - 11:45

break

11:45 - 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)

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1:30 - 1:45

Introduction to FreeSurfer Output

tutorial

staff

1:45 - 2:15

Surface-based Analysis: Intersubject Registration & Smoothing

talk

Iman Aganj

2:15 - 2:35

break

2:35 - 3:05

ROI Analysis

talk

Emma Boyd

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, April 2nd - Group Analysis / Longitudinal Analysis / Troubleshooting

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Optional time to work on tutorials / work on your own data / ask basic questions

--

Emma Boyd

9:00 - 9:50

Group Analysis

talk

Viviana Siless

9:50 - 10:30

Group Analysis Tutorial

tutorial

staff

10:30 - 10:50

break

10:50 - 11:30

Multiple Comparisons

talk

Doug Greve

11:30 - 12:00

Multiple Comparisons Tutorial

tutorial

staff

12:00 - 1:00

Lunch

--

--

1:00 - 1:45

FreeSurfer Troubleshooting

talk

Bruce Fischl

1:45 - 2:45

Troubleshooting Tutorial

tutorial

staff

2:45 - 3:05

break

3:05 - 4:05

Quality Checking a Recon

demo

Allison Stevens

4:05 - 4:50

Longitudinal FreeSurfer

talk

Malte Hoffmann

4:50 - 5:30

LongitudinalTutorial

tutorial

staff

5:30 - 6:15

*** Optional time to work on tutorials / work on your own data / ask basic questions

--

Emma Boyd

6:30 - ?

Boston Beer Works

social activity

you!

Answers to online questions here

Boston Beer Works location information here and here.
Meet us in front of Building 149 to catch the 6:30pm shuttle bus (it leaves on time!).
If you miss us, we are taking the MGH/Navy Yard shuttle to North Station. From there, cross the street to get to Canal Street.
Boston Beer Works will be down that street, on your right. (Shuttles depart every 15 minutes up until 7:15pm and every half hour after that).

Wednesday, April 3rd - Multimodal Analysis / Diffusion Analysis / fMRI Analysis / MR Acquisition

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Optional time to work on tutorials / work on your own data / ask basic questions

--

Lilla Zöllei, Leah Morgan

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

Isik Karahanoglu

4:50 - 5:50

*** Optional time to work on tutorials / work on your own data / ask basic questions

--

Doug Greve, André van der Kouwe, Paul Wighton, Allison Stevens

Answers to online questions here

Thursday, April 4th - fMRI Analysis / Multimodal Analysis / Future Directions

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:00 - 9:00

*** Optional time to work on tutorials / work on your own data / ask basic questions

--

Bram Diamond, Leah Morgan

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

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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 - 3:45

FreeSurfer vs. VBM

talk

Doug Greve

3:45 - 4:30

Future Directions

talk

FS Development Team

4:30 - 5:00

Question & Answer Session

--

staff

Answers to online questions here

* 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 covering basic/beginner material.