[Neurobureau-hubs] spinal cord hack

[rbrto]

i think neurohack is taken, but it could be nervousHack :P

On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Pierre Bellec
<pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca> wrote:
> 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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