18th-19th January 2006, University of Newcastle
Website and Registration: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/news/workshophome.htm?event=1

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The workshop is free for attendees, but places are limited.

OVERVIEW

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Contemporary human, primate and small animal neuroimaging produces increasingly voluminous data, which is captured, registered, analysed and archived in a diverse range of structures and formats. And, specific to particular imaging technologies, e.g. fMRI, we have recently seen the evolution of organised resource interchange mechanisms, based on GRID computing, which are allowing neuroscientists to share data, software and equipment, and compute across economical, ubiqitous parallel computers developed by the UK e-Science Programme. For researchers interested in imaging populations of neurones, and analysing their large scale neuroimage datasets, this has provided considerable scope for:

• Development of new methodologies to enhance algorithmic image registration, processing, analysis and comparison; taking advantage of functionally distributed computing.
• Formation and maintenance of very large scale data collections, making use of existing (and in some cases remote) data and equipment, to facilitate a more significant understanding of inherent processes and trends, and provide opportunities for correlative analysis with other relevant datasets, e.g. genomics and population data.
• Enabling a diverse research community to address a shared set of goals and challenges.

At the forefront of this research, neuroscientists wish to develop methods that can support and simplify quantitative integration of data produced by fMRI studies, and a range of complementary imaging techniques (EEG, MEG, PET etc), which augment fMRI by allowing the researcher to investigate known phenomena at a variety of levels of scale.

The workshop will take place over two days, with 10-12 talks and interleaved discussion sessions.

Professor Karl Friston will give a plenary lecture on Wednesday 18 January.

Delegates will also be invited to attend a workshop dinner on the evening of the 18th January.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

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Paul Watson - Director North East Regional e-Science Centre

Goutham Edula - Astra Zeneca, interested in PET + f-MRI imaging methods for the pharmaceutical application

Bob Mann - Edinburgh University, expert in image databasing, mining and data integration, University of Edinburgh Physics and Astronomy Department, and SkyServer Project

Andrew Blamire - Professor of f-MRI, University of Newcastle

Kai Alter - Researcher in auditory neuroscience and neural linguistics employing a variety of imaging techniques to understand audition and auditory deficiencies, University of Newcastle

Krish Singh - University of Cardiff, Director of Brain and Repair Imaging Centre

Karl Friston - Head of the Functional Imaging Centre and SPM Software Developer, University College London

Gary Green - Director, University of York Imaging Centre

Richard Ansorge - University of Cambridge. Developer of combined PET/MRI scanner.

Li Sun - University of Newcastle. Deficits in image processing for primate fMRI.

FORMAT

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10-12 concise talks will be presented identifying common impediments, inhibitions, and opportunities. As a consequence of these, and through structured discussion sessions, both following presentations and in the round, a roadmap for future research activity and collaboration will be developed.

ORGANISORS

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Alastair Knowles (alastair.knowles@ncl.ac.uk)
Anya Hurlbert (anya.hurlbert@ncl.ac.uk)
Colin Ingram (c.d.ingram@ncl.ac.uk)