FreeSurfer Tutorial and Workshop

Registration is now OPEN for the upcoming course! Registration Deadline is January 2, 2009

Courses

January 20 & 21, 2009 149 Thirteenth Street, Charlestown, MA

Description

The FreeSurfer Development Team is hosting a two-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. Registration Deadline is January 2, 2009. There are only 24 available spots for this course.

Laptops will be provided which will have FreeSurfer already installed. You may bring your own laptop and/or your own data, however it is advised you install FreeSurfer on it and test it ahead of time. There will be time at the end of Day 1 to learn how to install FreeSurfer but please keep in mind that there might not be enough time to resolve any specific technical issues that may arise.

Schedule

Day 1: Introduction to FreeSurfer

• Unix Tutorial (optional)

• Introduction to FreeSurfer

• FreeSurfer Applications

• Reliability/Validation of FreeSurfer

• Analyzing the Individual Subject
• Interaction with Individual Subject Data
• Group Analysis/GLM
• QDEC
• Multiple Comparisons
• Group Analysis Interactive Tutorial

• FreeSurfer Installation on Personal Laptops (optional)

• Start Processing Your Own Data (optional)

Day 2: Advanced FreeSurfer: Working with Various Data Types

• Registration for Multi-Modal Integration
• Working with fMRI and Diffusion Data
• Working with Different Format Types
• Segmentation/ROI Analysis

• Working with FreeSurfer Stats

• Surface-Based Multi-Modal Analysis
• Bug Reporting
• Question and Answer Session

• Future Directions of FreeSurfer

  • Combined Volume and Surface Registration
  • Tractography of Underlying Anatomy (TRACULA)