[Neurobureau-hubs] spinal cord hack

[Pierre Bellec]

Dear neurobureau,

I have been contacted by Dr Paul Summers, who is organizing an interesting
spin of the brainhack concept: spinal cord hack. It's going to be a
satellite of ISMRM and, as the name indicates, is like brainhack but for
spinal cord. I have copied the summary of the event below. Dr Summers would
like the post to be added to brainhack.org, as well as the neurobureau site
/ FB page. From every discussion I've had so far, it seemed that everybody
liked the idea of having a variety of spin-off of the brainhack concept
(which was itself a spin-off of generic hackatons), and include them in
brainhack.org as much as possible. Please get in touch if you have
comments/concerns about this initiative. Best,

Pierre

Spinal Cord Hack 2014

To follow close on the ISMRM meeting in Milan, we are inviting
participants to the first spinal cord hacking event. This half day event
will take place near the conference venue on Friday May 16th, 2014 with
the support of the International Spinal Research Trust. Our priorities are
to introduce the many challenges facing spinal cord MR imaging researchers
to coders and researchers with the interest and skills to pursue
solutions. Following a look at the software solutions currently available
and their limitations, the participants will have the chance to get down
to it in smaller groups to hack and discuss the future of spinal cord MRI.
The work themes are expected to touch on, but are not limited to: motion
correction of low feature images, functional - structural registration,
group space generation and atlasing, defining practices for existing
tools, setting image quality requirements for spinal cord fMRI, DTI and
other I's,
validation of statistical assumptions in the context of spinal cord fMRI,
SEEP - BOLD bun fight, and damning or damned by physiological noise.

If interested in participating, contributing data, code or other, please
contact paul.summers at unimore.it.
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