From caramanos at gmail.com Thu Jul 3 14:44:41 2014 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:44:41 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?utf-8?q?Feindel_Brain_Imaging_Lecture_=40_The_BI?= =?utf-8?q?C_=28Mon-July-07=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=C3=A9_Commun?= =?utf-8?q?ications_Centre=3B_=22Alzheimer=E2=80=99s_Disease_Imagin?= =?utf-8?q?g=3A_What=E2=80=99s_Genes_Got_To_Do=2C_Got_To_Do_With_It?= =?utf-8?q?=3F=22_--_Dr=2E_Aman_Badhwar=29?= Message-ID: *The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series @ The BIC * * Monday, July the 7th, 1:00 pm. * *de Grandpr? Communications Centre * Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, H3A 2B4 *Alzheimer?s Disease Imaging: What?s Genes Got To Do, Got To Do With It?* * Dr. Aman Badhwar * Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series features informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the Neuro 's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) by experts in the field. These lectures are named in honour of Dr. William Feindel (1918-2014), former Director of the Neuro (1972 -1984) and Founding Director of the BIC (1984?88). Dr. Feindel 's presence and contribution will be greatly missed at our weekly Brain Imaging Lectures , where he almost always asked the final, most-germane question of the day: one that usually bridged the clinical and research realms, and that brought together the past, the present, and the future of brain science. This semester, our Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for those associated with the BIC to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Cheers! Aki PS - To be informed of future BIC events, make sure you subscribe to our mailing list: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series @ The BIC* *- Winter/Spring-2014 Program* *Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. * *For more information and links to PDFs of the presentations when available, please visit our website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *Functional Imaging of the Sleeping and Sleep-Disordered Brain* -- Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 08) Tue-Feb-25: *Driving Neurons with Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation Coils *-- Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar 09) Mar-03: *OMM: Matlab vs. Python for Brain Imaging Experiments* -- Ms. Emily Coffey and Dr. Robert Brown 10) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Tissue-Classification of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 11) Mar-17: *OMM-1: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis Mar-17: *OMM-2: SurfStat: Surface-Based Statistics in Matlab* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 12) Mar-24: *OMM: Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI using Python* -- Mr. Mike E. Klein 13) Mar-31: *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 14) Apr-07: *Neurovascular Coupling in the Human Brain* -- Dr. Kevin Whittingstall 15) Apr-14: *Novel Methods and Tools for MR-DWI Population Analysis and Quality Control: Modeling of Early Infant Brain Growth from Longitudinal DTI* -- Dr. Guido Gerig 16) Tue-Apr-22: *Modeling of Systemic and Regional Cerebral Hemodynamics With Data-Driven Methods* -- Dr. Georgios Mitsis ---) Apr-28: *No Lecture** -- Neuropsychology Day* 17) May-05: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 19) May-26: *BIC Coffee Fund Travel Award and OMM Data Blitz* 20) Jun-02: *OMM: MEM Brainstorm Plug-In for EEG/MEG Source Localization* -- Dr. Jean Marc Lina and Dr. Christophe Grova ---) Jun-09: *No Lecture** -- OHBM in **Hamburg* 21) Jun-16: *Using Concurrent TMS-fMRI to Measure Network Dynamics in Human Cognition* -- Dr. Colin Hawco ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- Postponed till July 7th* 22) Jun-30: *A combined MEG and fMRI investigation of human object representations* -- Dr. Radoslaw Cichy and Dr. Dimitrios Pantazis 23) Jul-07: *Alzheimer?s Disease Imaging: What?s Genes Got To Do, Got To Do With It?* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Communications Centre * Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University Street, Montreal, H3A 2B4 *Alzheimer?s Disease Imaging: What?s Genes Got To Do, Got To Do With It?* * Dr. Aman Badhwar * Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series features informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the Neuro 's McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) by experts in the field. These lectures are named in honour of Dr. William Feindel (1918-2014), former Director of the Neuro (1972 -1984) and Founding Director of the BIC (1984?88). Dr. Feindel 's presence and contribution will be greatly missed at our weekly Brain Imaging Lectures , where he almost always asked the final, most-germane question of the day: one that usually bridged the clinical and research realms, and that brought together the past, the present, and the future of brain science. This semester, our Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for those associated with the BIC to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Cheers! Aki PS - To be informed of future BIC events, make sure you subscribe to our mailing list: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series @ The BIC* *- Winter/Spring-2014 Program* *Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. * *For more information and links to PDFs of the presentations when available, please visit our website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *Functional Imaging of the Sleeping and Sleep-Disordered Brain* -- Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 08) Tue-Feb-25: *Driving Neurons with Microscopic Magnetic Stimulation Coils *-- Dr. Giorgio Bonmassar 09) Mar-03: *OMM: Matlab vs. Python for Brain Imaging Experiments* -- Ms. Emily Coffey and Dr. Robert Brown 10) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Tissue-Classification of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 11) Mar-17: *OMM-1: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis Mar-17: *OMM-2: SurfStat: Surface-Based Statistics in Matlab* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 12) Mar-24: *OMM: Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI using Python* -- Mr. Mike E. Klein 13) Mar-31: *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 14) Apr-07: *Neurovascular Coupling in the Human Brain* -- Dr. Kevin Whittingstall 15) Apr-14: *Novel Methods and Tools for MR-DWI Population Analysis and Quality Control: Modeling of Early Infant Brain Growth from Longitudinal DTI* -- Dr. Guido Gerig 16) Tue-Apr-22: *Modeling of Systemic and Regional Cerebral Hemodynamics With Data-Driven Methods* -- Dr. Georgios Mitsis ---) Apr-28: *No Lecture** -- Neuropsychology Day* 17) May-05: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 19) May-26: *BIC Coffee Fund Travel Award and OMM Data Blitz* 20) Jun-02: *OMM: MEM Brainstorm Plug-In for EEG/MEG Source Localization* -- Dr. Jean Marc Lina and Dr. Christophe Grova ---) Jun-09: *No Lecture** -- OHBM in **Hamburg* 21) Jun-16: *Using Concurrent TMS-fMRI to Measure Network Dynamics in Human Cognition* -- Dr. Colin Hawco ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- Postponed till July 7th* 22) Jun-30: *A combined MEG and fMRI investigation of human object representations* -- Dr. Radoslaw Cichy and Dr. Dimitrios Pantazis 23) Jul-07: *Alzheimer?s Disease Imaging: What?s Genes Got To Do, Got To Do With It?* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar -- Zografos Caramanos, M.A. Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 (phone) 514-299-8160; (fax) 514-398-2975 (e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca (web) Google-scholar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks Belinda [neuro] Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator Institut et h?pital neurologiques de Montr?al Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 3801, rue University, Bureau NW119 Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3A 2B4 T.514.398-1585 /F.514.398-6855 leneuro.com From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Angela Broccoli, Mrs. Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 3:44 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: FW: Travel Management Program Subject: Travel Management Program Message sent on behalf of Michael Di Grappa, Vice-Principal, Administration and Finance Dear colleagues, Please note the attached message I have sent to my reporting units regarding McGill's Travel Management Program. I would encourage you to send a similar note in your areas. 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Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. To register, email events at alleninstitute.org and include ?McGill Atlas Training? in the subject line. Please indicate which session(s) you would like to attend in the body of the message. The Allen Institute has produced an extraordinary amount of data, which is freely available to everyone at brain-map.org. These data include neuro-anatomical atlases of gene expression in developing and adult human brain, DSI in developing human, gene expression in developing macaque, adult and embryonic mouse CNS also during sleep/wake cycles, and in human glioblastoma. July 17 ADVANCING NEUROSCIENCE WITH THE ALLEN BRAIN ATLAS 10:00 - 11:00 AM DE GRANDPR? COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE / BELL ROOM Recommended for anyone seeking an overview of the Allen Institute data, software, and tools. Highly recommended for anyone attending the afternoon training(s). ALLEN BRAIN ATLAS HANDS-ON TRAINING WORKSHOP DE GRANDPR? COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE / BELL ROOM Workshop attendees will be trained in navigation and search features of the data sets. 1:00 - 2:00 PM MOUSE GENE EXPRESSION 2:30 - 3:30 PM MOUSE CONNECTIVITY 4:00 - 5:00 PM HUMAN GENE EXPRESSION We hope you can join us for what will undoubtedly be an extremely informative day! Best wishes, Jennifer Goldman McGill, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery; 3801 University St, MP116, Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Website: jennifergoldman.webs.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Plusieurs conf?renciers de r?putation internationale, provenant de diff?rents horizons du domaine de l?imagerie, ont ?t? invit?s ? pr?senter leur vision des futurs d?veloppements de la recherche de pointe en imagerie (bio)m?dicale et des impacts de l?imagerie (bio)m?dicale sur la recherche et la pratique clinique. CONF?RENCIERS INVIT?S : Pr John Gore, Universit? Vanderbilt au Tennessee: IRM, IRMf et imagerie multimodale. Pr Andreas Hielscher, Universit? Columbia ? New York : tomographie optique di?use, instrumentation m?dicale optique. Pr Georges El Fakhri, H?pital G?n?ral du Massachusetts (MGH) ? Boston : m?thodes quantitatives TEP/TDM et TEM/TDM, instrumentation TEP/TDM et TEM, mod?lisation pharmacocin?tique, suivi de radioth?rapie en TEP. Pr Louis Collins, Universit? McGill ? Montr?al : Segmentation automatis?e et cartographie d?images IRM c?r?brale dans un contexte neurochirurgical Pr Alexander (Sandy) McEwan, Universit? de l?Alberta ? Calgary : Th?rapie radioisotopique, d?veloppement de nouveaux radiopharmaceutiques, imagerie mol?culaire et design d?essais cliniques, imagerie de l?hypoxie. ----------------------------------------------------- Imagining Imaging September 25-26, 2014 https://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/en/event/2599 The Imagining Imaging Symposium is an international event held by the Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center (SMIC) to mark the inauguration of its new research facilities within the Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke (CRCHUS). Internationally renowned speakers from a diversity of imaging fields have been invited to present their vision of the future developments of state of the art research in (bio)medical imaging and the impacts of (bio)medical imaging on research and clinical practice. INVITED SPEAKERS: Pr John Gore, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee: MRIand fMRI. Pr Andreas Hielscher, Columbia University, New York: Diffuse optical tomography, optical medical instrumentation. Pr Georges El Fakhri, Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston: PET/CT and SPECT/CT quantitative methods, PET/CT and SPECT instrumentation, pharmacokinetic modeling, monitoring radiotherapy with PET. Pr Louis Collins, McGill University, Montreal: MRI brain imaging automated segmentation and atlasing techniques in a neurosurgical context. Pr Alexander (Sandy) McEwan, University of Alberta, Calgary: Radioisotope therapy, novel radiopharmaceutical development, molecular imaging and clinical trial design, hypoxia imaging. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Machine Learning with MATLAB" Machine Learning with MATLAB Thursday, July 17 9:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. US EDT 2:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. BST (GMT+1) Learn how to use MATLAB and machine learning tools to detect patterns and build predictive models from your datasets. ??Sign Up "GPU Computing with MATLAB" GPU Computing with MATLAB Tuesday, July 22 9:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. US EDT 2:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. BST (GMT+1) Learn about the GPU-enabled functionality in MATLAB and how you can integrate your own custom CUDA kernels. ??Sign Up "Data Analysis with MATLAB for Excel Users" Data Analysis with MATLAB for Excel Users Thursday, July 31 9:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. US EDT 2:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. BST (GMT+1) Learn how MATLAB can supplement your Excel use by providing access to thousands of pre-built engineering and advanced analysis functions, and versatile visualization tools. ??Sign Up Who should attend? All educators, academic researchers, and students are welcome to attend these complimentary webinars. 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SENSORICA has good record for training students, see on our Interns page. http://www.sensorica.co/home/what-we-do/working-space/interns Thank you very much for your support. From kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca Tue Jul 15 11:01:21 2014 From: kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca (Krys Dudek) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:01:21 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] CREATE-MIA Seminars -- Thursday July 17 Message-ID: <44D4F4DB-9B55-42FD-8E14-6BF91090E355@cim.mcgill.ca> Hi all, You are cordially invited to attend two CREATE-MIA Seminars on Thursday, July 17: ?????????????????????????????????????????? TITLE: Analysis and Modeling of Heart Wall Dynamics and Geometry SPEAKER: Arthur Mensch, Research Intern, ?cole Polytechnique, Paliseau PLACE: McConnell Engineering Rm 437 DATE: Thursday July 17th, 2014 TIME: 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm ABSTRACT We model contraction of the left-ventricle by combining geometrical modelling of heart wall fibre structure, acquired ex-vivo, with in-vivo imaging o of the heart beat. We use a finite volume method to perform a simulation, enforcing geometrical constraints, fibre contraction and realistic myocardium passive mechanical behaviour. We intend to validate our simulation by comparing the modelled dynamical behavior with ground-truth dynamical data, obtained via tagged MRI and state-of-the-art tracking techniques. ?????????????????????????????????????????? TITLE: Ultrasound Guided Prostate and Spine Interventions SPEAKER: Purang Abolmaesumi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia PLACE: McConnell Engineering Rm 437 DATE: Thursday July 17th, 2014 TIME: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm ABSTRACT This talk presents a summary of our research on developing innovative systems for prostate cancer therapy, and spinal analgesia and anaesthesia. Brachytherapy as one of the treatment methods for prostate cancer takes place by implantation of radioactive seeds inside the gland. Standard of care for this treatment procedure is to acquire transrectal ultrasound images from the prostate, which are further segmented, in order to create an appropriate seed placement plan. The segmentation process is usually performed either manually or semi-automatically and is associated with the subjective errors due to artefacts and low signal to noise ratio of the ultrasound images. In this talk, I will present a fully automatic segmentation algorithm, which uses a priori knowledge of contours in a large cohort of patients. In addition to enhancing the clinical workflow for planning the brachytherapy procedure, such automatic segmentation algorithm may enable intra-operative delineation of the prostate for real-time dosimetry. I will also discuss enabling technologies that we have developed to guide needle insertion into the lumbar spine using ultrasound. The main application is facet joints and epidural/steroid injection for the relief of chronic back pain, and labour/analgesia. The anaesthesiologist is expected to use the system to choose a suitable puncture location, insert the needle at an appropriate angle and stop when the needle reaches the desired depth. The goal is to increase the confidence level by enabling an accurate needle placement on the first attempt, and hence reduce complications and pain for the patient. In current practice, the needle insertion is either done blindly, using palpation to choose a puncture site, or under fluoroscopy/CT guidance, which carry a high radiation dose risk to both patient and anaesthesiologist. I will present how we add real-time ultrasound capability to these procedures and display the ultrasound, pre-procedure CT or a statistical model of the spine, and needle trajectory to the anaesthesiologist. BIOGRAPHY Purang Abolmaesumi is the Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering, a Killam Research Prize recipient, and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is internationally recognized and has received numerous awards for his pioneering developments in ultrasound image processing, image registration and image-guided interventions. He is the General Chair of the International Conference on Information Processing in Computer Assisted Intervention, 2014-2016, and serves on the program committees of the Medical Image Computing and Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) and International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Medical Imaging. Dr. Abolmaesumi is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. His techniques for prostate segmentation are currently the standard-of-care in British Columbia and have been used to treat more than 2,000 patients. Best, Krys _________________________________________________________ Krys (Christine) Dudek Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis Centre for Intelligent Machines 3480 University Street McConnell Engineering Building, Room 410 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca 514.398.6319 www.cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Marika passed away from complications from CF just before noon. She would have turned 28 on July 29th. We?re crushed as you can imagine and it pains us to have to bring you this news. We've never known anyone so brave or to bring so much joy and sunshine to others. We've never known anyone more deserving to live and be happy. Please take time to hold her in your thoughts and appreciate her in the days to come. Regretfully, Marie, John and sister Catherine" We will send out additional information about arrangements as soon as we receive it, as we are sure that many of you will want to express your condolences to the family. With my warmest regards, Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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