[Neurobureau-hubs] spinal cord hack

[rbrto]

sounds good!

in addition to the brain and the spinal cord, there's also the enteric
nervous system (for the gut feelings?). Anyone for a guthack? that way
we would have it all covered :D

"The enteric nervous system consists of some one hundred million
neurons, one thousandth of the number of neurons in the brain, and
essentially equal to the one hundred million neurons in the spinal
cord. The enteric nervous system is embedded in the lining of the
gastrointestinal system, beginning in the esophagus and extending down
to the anus."

cheers,
roberto

On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:37 AM, Pierre Bellec
<pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca> wrote:
> 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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