Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the program for the MICCAI workshop on brain networks
in neuroimaging. Go to http://www.miccai2009.org
The early registration deadline has now been extended to 14th August,
2009.
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Workshop on “Modelling brain networks in functional and structural MRI
data".
MICCAI 2009, London, UK (http://www.miccai2009.org)
9:00-12:30, Thursday 24th September
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The field of neuroimaging faces key challenges in the coming years.
While techniques are readily available to map regions of the brain
whose activity increases during specific tasks, there are fundamental
questions that are not addressed by standard methodology, despite
relevant information being present in the neuroimaging data. In
particular, the understanding of interactions between brain regions,
and how these relate to underlying connectional anatomy is of central
importance for a mechanistic understanding of function.
This workshop aims to bring together cutting edge developments in
characterizing brain dynamics and connectivity. These include the use
of biophysical models to capture the dynamic interactions between
evoked neuronal populations (e.g. Dynamic Causal Modelling), and our
current understanding of spontaneous oscillations of neural activity
in FMRI and MEG data. Furthermore, we consider the complementary use
structural information (e.g. via diffusion MR tractography) as the
anatomical basis of functional interactions.
Program (see http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~woolrich/miccai.pdf)
Session 1 – Modeling networks of evoked activity
Chair: Mark Woolrich
9:00 – 9:30 Klaas Stephan, University of Zurich.
“Dynamic causal modeling of
neuronal networks.”
9:30 – 10:00 Will Penny, University College, London.
“Weakly Coupled Oscillator
Models.”
10:00 – 10:30 Marcus Kaiser, Newcastle University.
“Structural networks and the
link to network dynamics.”
10:30 – 11:00 Break
Session 2 – Modeling networks of spontaneous activity
Chair: Saad Jbabdi
11:00 – 11:30 Andreas Kleinschmidt, Neurospin Center,
Paris.
“Assessing spontaneous brain
activity by EEG and sensory probes.”
11:30 – 12:00 Christian Beckmann, Imperial College London.
“Correspondence of the brain's
functional architecture during activation and rest”
12:00 – 12:30 Rolf Kötter, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
"Large-scale models of the
'resting state' of the brain”
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Dr Mark Woolrich
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow University Research Lecturer
Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB),
John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK.
Tel: (+44)1865-222782 Homepage: http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~woolrich
