FreeSurfer Tutorial and Workshop
Course Policies |
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Laptop damage policy |
Getting the tutorial data |
If liquid is spilled on a provided laptop, then you are liable for payment of the repair costs! |
Please DO NOT try to download the tutorial data during the course! We have copies of this data stored on servers located in the course room. Attempting to download this data from the public link (this link) during the course presents excessive and unnecessary load on our network, and likely will fail due to this load. Please contact a staff member for help in getting this data. |
About the Course
The FreeSurfer tools deal with two main types of data: volumetric data (volumes of voxels) and surface data (polygons that tile a surface). The talks and tutorials should familiarize you with FreeSurfer's volume and surface processing streams. The tutorials also describe some of FreeSurfer's tools for registering volumetric datasets, performing group analysis on morphology data, and integrating multi-modal output with FreeSurfer (overlaying color coded parametric maps onto the cortical surface and visualizing plotted results).
Note: During the tutorial sessions, you will be shown a variety of commands. Only those that appear in a box should be copy-and-pasted into the terminal. They will look like this:
command arg1 arg2
Tip for Mac users: The tutorials often refer to keyboard shortcuts (such as Alt+v) which do not work on a Mac. For a list of equivalent keyboard commands on a Mac, please refer to MacCommands.
Online Question Forum |
Videos of Lectures |
Course Evaluation |
Throughout the course, you may post questions here (anonymously or not). |
You can find videos of the lectures here. |
The course evaluation will be posted here on the last day of the course. |
Course Schedule
FreeSurfer Course, October 27-29, 2014
MGH, Charlestown Navy Yard, Building 114, Room D1
8:00 - 9:30am Registration Desk Open
Monday, Oct 27th - Introduction / Single Subject Analysis /Troubleshooting
Time |
Title |
Type |
Lecturer |
8:30 - 9:00 |
optional - Unix Tutorial for FreeSurfer Users |
tutorial |
Paul Wighton |
9:00 - 9:15 |
optional - Intro to FreeSurfer Jargon |
talk |
Lilla Zollei |
9:15 - 9:30 |
break |
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9:30 - 10:00 |
talk |
Bruce Fischl |
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10:00 - 11:10 |
talk |
Doug Greve |
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11:10 - 11:30 |
break |
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11:30 - 12:10 |
optional - A Non-physicist's Intro to MR SpinBench |
talk |
Dylan Tisdall |
12:10 - 1:10 |
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-- |
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1:10 - 1:30 |
demo |
Allison Stevens |
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1:30 - 2:30 |
tutorial |
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2:30 - 3:00 |
talk |
Bruce Fischl |
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3:00 - 3:20 |
break |
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3:20 - 4:00 |
Quality Checking a Recon |
demo |
Allison Stevens |
4:00 - 5:00 |
tutorial |
staff |
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5:00 - 5:15 |
Question and Answer Session (Answers to online questions here) |
talk |
staff |
Boston Beer Works location information here and here.
Meet us in front of Building 149 to catch the 6:15pm shuttle bus (it leaves on time!).
If you miss us, we are taking the MGH/Navy Yard shuttle to North Station. From there, cross the street to get to Canal Street. Boston Beer Works will be down that street, on your right. (If you miss the 6:15 bus, the next few buses depart at 6:30pm, 6:45pm, 7pm, 7:15pm, and 7:45pm).
Tuesday, Oct 28th - Group Analysis / ROI Analysis / Longitudinal
Time |
Title |
Type |
Lecturer |
9:00 - 9:40 |
Surface-based Analysis: Intersubject Smoothing & Registration |
talk |
Doug Greve |
9:40 - 10:20 |
talk |
Martin Reuter |
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10:20 - 10:40 |
break |
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10:40 - 11:20 |
tutorial |
staff |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
talk |
Doug Greve |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
QDEC demonstration |
demo |
Martin Reuter |
12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
-- |
-- |
1:00 - 1:20 |
tutorial |
staff |
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1:20 - 2:00 |
tutorial |
staff |
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2:00 - 2:30 |
talk |
Doug Greve |
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2:30 - 2:50 |
break |
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2:50 - 3:20 |
tutorial |
staff |
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3:20 - 3:50 |
talk |
Martin Reuter |
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3:50 - 4:30 |
tutorial |
staff |
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4:30 - 5:00 |
optional technical talk - Registration Methods |
talk |
Lilla Zollei |
5:00 - 5:15 |
Question and Answer Session (Answers to online questions here) |
talk |
staff |
Wednesday, Oct 29th - Diffusion / Multimodal / Future Directions / Q&A
Time |
Title |
Type |
Lecturer |
9:00 - 9:30 |
talk |
Doug Greve |
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9:30 - 10:00 |
tutorial |
staff |
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10:00 - 10:30 |
talk |
Anastasia Yendiki |
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10:30 - 10:50 |
break |
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10:50 - 11:20 |
tutorial |
staff |
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11:20 - 12:00 |
talk |
Anastasia Yendiki |
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12:00 - 1:00 |
Lunch |
-- |
-- |
1:00 - 1:45 |
tutorial |
staff |
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1:45 - 2:15 |
talk |
Doug Greve |
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2:15 - 3:00 |
tutorial |
staff |
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3:00 - 3:20 |
break & Evaluation |
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3:20 - 3:50 |
Future Directions |
talk |
Bruce Fischl |
3:50 - 4:20 |
optional technical talk - MRI Acquisition Methods for Morphometry |
talk |
Andre van der Kouwe |
4:20 - 4:50 |
optional technical talk - Motion-compensated neuroanatomical imaging |
talk |
Dylan Tisdall |
4:50 - 5:05 |
Question and Answer Session (Answers to online questions here), FsQuiz |
talk |
staff |
The FreeSurfer Evaluation is here!
Additional Useful Information
During the Course
Getting the tutorial data (necessary only if you are not taking a formal course where data is provided) DO NOT attempt this during a course! Contact a staff member for instructions on how to get this data locally during the course.
Using a Mac & need a text editor? Download gedit, here.
Taxi Phone numbers can be found here.
After the Course
Home page: http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Mailing list: send mail to majordomo@surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu with the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe freesurfer
How to cite FreeSurfer is on the FreeSurferMethodsCitation page.
iSurf - iPhone/iPad app to view FreeSurfer segmentations