[Neurobureau-hubs] spinal cord hack

[Pierre Bellec]

Roberto, great point. Have we gone too cerebro-centric ? Shall we replace
BrainHack by NeuroHack ?? Only time will tell.

Pierre Bellec, PhD
Researcher / Chercheur, Research Centre of the Montreal Geriatric Institute
Professeur adjoint sous octroi, Department of Computer Science and
Operations Research
University of Montreal, Québec, Canada
1 514 340 3540 #3367
http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec


2014-03-30 5:19 GMT-04:00 rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com>:

> 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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