Announcing a course on the theory and practice of functional and
structural brain image analysis:
The Third FSL & FreeSurfer Course
8-11 June 2003
UCLA, California
More detail at:
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/announce.html
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We are pleased to announce the third FSL/FreeSurfer course, run
primarily by members of Oxford University's FMRIB Centre, as well as
researchers from MGH and UCLA. The course will be held at the Marina
del Rey, near Los Angeles, California. The intensive course covers
both the theory and practice of functional and structural brain image
analysis. Background concepts and the practicalities of analyses are
taught in detailed lectures; these are interleaved with hands-on
practical sessions where attendees learn how to carry out analysis for
themselves on real data, with at most two attendees per computer. By
the end of the course, attendees should be able to fully analyse their
own FMRI and MRI data sets.
The course is aimed at both new and existing users of these packages
and will cover both basic and advanced features. The methods covered
include
* GLM-based analysis of FMRI data including Bayesian multi-subject
statistics (FSL - FEAT)
* Model-free (ICA) analysis of FMRI data (FSL - MELODIC)
* Brain extraction (FSL - BET)
* Image registration (alignment) and unwarping (FSL - FLIRT/FUGUE)
* Tissue-type segmentation and structural statistical analysis
e.g. atrophy (FSL - FAST/SIENA/SIENAX)
* Cortical-flattening of images and its applications (FreeSurfer)
* Different methods of image display and interrogation (AFNI,
ScanSTAT)
Speakers include Christian Beckmann, Mark Jenkinson, Steve Smith and
Mark Woolrich from FMRIB (Oxford), Mark Cohen from UCLA (Los Angeles)
and Doug Greve from MGH (Boston).
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Registration
Registration is $175 for students, $350 for non-student academic
attendees and $1000 for industrial attendees. This is a
non-profit-making course; registration includes hiring of computers
for the practical sessions, course notes, a CD containing FSL and the
course data and lunches. The registration fee does NOT include
accommodation (see below).
We expect demand for this course to be quite high; the attendance is
limited to 150 persons and will be assigned purely on a
first-come-first-served basis.
To register, please fill in the online registration form at
http://airto.loni.ucla.edu/fsl/FSLRegistration2003.html
Accommodation Information
The conference will be held at the Marina Del Rey Hotel, a beautiful
ocean side facility with free shuttle service from the Los Angeles
International Airport. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at
$99/night for single occupancy or $119/night for a double-occupancy
room. For room reservations, please contact the Marina Del Rey Hotel
Reservations Department at (800) 882-4000 and mention the "FSL Course"
For queries email [log in to unmask]
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Local organisation management: Mark Cohen, UCLA (Los Angeles)
Course sponsorship: UCLA departments of: Psychiatry, Psychology,
Radiological Sciences and Biomedical Physics.
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For more information, including recommended preparatory reading and
tentative timetable, see
http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/announce.html
Regards, the course organisers.
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