Summer School: Mathematics in Brain Imaging - IPAM

Summer School: Mathematics in Brain Imaging

July 14 - 25, 2008

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, July 14, 2008

Morning Session

Week I
08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
Surface-Based Computational Anatomy (Chair: Paul Thompson)
09:00-09:45
David van Essen (Washington University in St.Louis - School of Medicine)
Surface-Based Computational Mapping of the Cerebral Cortex
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Zhuowen Tu (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Towards Automated Whole Brain Image Segmentation

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-15:45
Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Computing Sulcal Curves and the complexity of brain connectivity

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Computational Anatomy of Shape (Chair: Michael Miller)
09:00-09:45
Michael Miller (Johns Hopkins University)
Computational Functional Anatomy
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Laurent Younes (Johns Hopkins University)
Evolutions Equations in Computational Anatomy
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Anqi Qiu (National University of Singapore)
Computational Functional Anatomy

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
14:45-15:00
Break
16:00-17:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Mathematics of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (Chair: Christophe Lenglet)
09:00-09:45
Christophe Lenglet (Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.)
Mathematical Concepts for DTI and High-Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Carl-Fredrik Westin (Harvard Medical School)
Trends in Diffusion MRI Tractography
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Steve Smith (University of Oxford)
Tract-Based Spatial Statistics

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:45-15:00
Break
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
17:00-19:00
Speakers' Dinner (Wednesday Evening)

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Mapping Anatomy in Population Studies (Chair: James Gee)
09:00-09:45
John Ashburner (University College London)
Pre-processing for Voxel-Based Morphometry
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Christos Davatzikos (University of Pennsylvania)
Morphological appearance manifolds for computational anatomy
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Tom Goldstein (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Improving Image Reconstruction in MRI
15:00-16:00
Monica Hurdal (Florida State University)
Cortical Mapping using Conformal Geometry
16:00-17:30
Student Presentations (10 minutes each; sign up on Monday)

Friday, July 18, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Statistics on Manifolds for Computational Anatomy and DTI (Chair: Christos Davatzikos)
09:00-09:45
James Gee (University of Pennsylvania)
Geodesics in Deformation Morphometry and DTI
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Xavier Pennec (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))
Statistics Computing on Manifolds: from Riemannian Geometry to Computational Anatomy
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
11:45
Closing Remarks

Monday, July 21, 2008

Morning Session

Week II
08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-9:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00
Advances in first-level modeling (Chair: Tom Nichols)
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Steve Smith (University of Oxford)
Modeling temporal structure
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Thomas Liu (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
fMRI Design Optimization

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Bayesian Methods in fMRI (Chair: Steve Smith)
14:00-14:45
DuBois Bowman (Emory University School of Public Health)
A Bayesian hierarchical framework for spatial modeling of fMRI data
14:45-15:00
Break
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Panel Session (Glover,Nichols,Poline,Poldrack,Smith,Strother,Worsley)"Remaining Challenges in Multi-Subject fMRI"

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00
Reproducibility in fMRI (Chair: Lars Kai Hansen)
09:00-09:45
Gary Glover (Stanford University)
Considerations in Multi-site fMRI
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
J.B. Poline (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA))
Reproducibility in group modeling
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Stephen Strother (University of Toronto)
Reproducibility across analysis methods

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Random Field Methods (Chair: J-B Poline)
14:00-14:45
Jonathan Taylor (Stanford University)
Multiple comparisons and random field methods
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-15:45
Keith Worsley (University of Chicago)
The statistical analysis of cortical surface data
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Ruth Heller (University of Pennsylvania)
Advances in FDR for fMRI

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Improved modelling with Multivariate Methods (Chair: Keith Worsley)
09:00-09:45
Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
Decomposition methods for explorative neuroimaging
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Vince Calhoun (University of New Mexico)
Group ICA of fMRI
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Ola Friman (MeVis Research GmbH, Center for Medical Image Computing)
Adaptive Multivariate Analysis

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Imaging Genomics (Chair: Tom Nichols)
14:00-14:45
Nelson Freimer (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
What makes a genetic association significant?
14:45-15:00
Break

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Connectivity models (Chair: Russ Poldrack)
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Marta Garrido (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Dynamic causal modeling
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Judea Pearl (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
The Mathematics of Cause and Effect

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Meta-analysis (Chair: Jeanette Mumford)
14:00-14:45
Tor Wager (Columbia University)
Meta-analysis of neuroimaging data
14:45-15:00
Break
15:00-15:45
Lars Kai Hansen (Technical University of Denmark)
Knowledge discovery in neuroimaging databases
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Angela Laird (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio)
Coordinate-Based Meta-Analysis using Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE)

Friday, July 25, 2008

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Machine learning methods (Chair: Walt Schneider)
09:00-09:45
Francisco Pereira (Princeton University)
Introduction to Machine Learning for fMRI Data
09:45-10:00
Break
10:00-10:45
Stephen LaConte (Baylor College of Medicine)
Classification of fMRI-based cognitive states
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-11:45
Isabelle Guyon (Clopinet)
Feature selection methods

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Advanced topics in machine learning (Chair: Francisco Pereira)
14:00-14:45
14:45-15:00
Break
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-16:45
Janaina Mourao-Miranda (King's College London)
Analysis of fMRI data using Machine Learning Methods