FreeSurfer Tutorial and Workshop in São Paulo, Brazil

11 & 12 March 2009

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. There are only 30 available spots for this course. The course will not cover FS-FAST or fMRI analysis.

Computers will be provided to all pairs of registrants, which will have FreeSurfer and data already installed. Attendees will work in pairs (sharing a computer).

The course will be held at São Paulo healthcare complex of HCFMUSP.

Contact: Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Jr. ( ppj at netfilter dot com dot br )

Location

Hospital das Clínicas - .kmz - Avenida Dr Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44 - São Paulo - SP - Brazil - (hotel,map)

The course will be held at the Cancer Center Building, in the 6th floor auditorium.

Wednesday, March 11th - Introduction / Single Subject / Group Analysis

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

8:30 - 9:00

Course Registration

sign-in

staff

9:00 - 9:20

Introductions, and Unix tutorial for FreeSurfer

tutorial

Pedro Paulo in Portuguese

9:20 - 9:50

Introduction to Freesurfer

talk

Nick Schmansky

9:50 - 10:30

FreeSurfer Applications (suppl1,suppl2)

talk

Nick Schmansky

10:30 - 10:45

coffee break

10:45 - 11:45

Analyzing the Individual Subject

talk

Allison Stevens

11:45 - 12:00

Tkmedit/Tksurfer demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

12:00 - 1:00

lunch

1:00 - 1:45

Interaction with Individual Subject Data

tutorial

staff

1:45 - 3:00

Group Analysis / GLM / Multiple Comparisons

talk

Lilla Zollei

3:00 - 3:15

QDEC demonstration

demo

Nick Schmansky

3:15 - 3:30

coffee break

3:15 - 4:15

Group Analysis / Multiple Comparisons - mri_glmfit

tutorial

staff

4:15 - 5:00

Group Analysis - qdec

tutorial

staff

Thursday, March 12th - ROIs / Troubleshooting / Multi-Modal / QA / Future Directions

Time

Title

Type

Lecturer

9:00 - 9:40

ROI Analysis

talk

Allison Stevens

9:40 - 10:15

ROI Analysis

tutorial

staff

10:15 - 10:30

coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Failure Modes

talk

Allison Stevens

11:00 - 12:00

Troubleshooting

tutorial

staff

12:00 - 1:15

lunch

1:15 - 2:15

Multi-Modal Integration: ROI and Surface-based Analysis

talk

Lilla Zollei

2:15 - 3:15

Multi-Modal Integration

tutorial

staff

3:15 - 3:30

coffee break

3:30 - 4:30

Future Directions of FreeSurfer

talk

Lilla Zollei

4:30 - 5:30

Question and Answer Session, FsQuiz

group session

staff

FsTutorial/Brazil2009CourseSchedule (last edited 2010-01-08 16:31:27 by NickSchmansky)