From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Tue Aug 4 14:47:20 2015 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:47:20 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] 2nd Edition MEG@McGill Comprehensive Training Program Message-ID: * For diffusion - thank you * Hi everyone: It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the 2nd edition of the MEG at McGill Comprehensive Training Program in 2015. Following the success encountered last March, we will be providing again a series of practical and hands-on training sessions this November. The first day of training (Nov 16) will consist of basic lectures (physiology, time-series analysis, imaging, cross-frequency coupling, connectivity) and practical examples from MEG users (language, audition, multimodal processing, vision, real-time neurofeedback, etc.). Our keynote will be Dr. Sylvain Williams (McGill), who will provide an electrophysiologist?s perspective on the phenomenon of phase-amplitude coupling. Nov 17-20 - limited to 12 seats - will be for small break-out groups to design studies, actually collect and learn how to analyze data using Brainstorm. The week will end with a study competition and a night out in town. Program and registration: https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/meg-training-program More information: please contact Beth Bock > Looking forward to seing you in Montreal this fall! Sylvain. Sylvain Baillet, PhD Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery & Biomedical Engineering Acting Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI Killam and FRQS Senior Scholar Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University http://mcgill.ca/bic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Wed Aug 5 15:31:46 2015 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 19:31:46 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] A BIC year in review Message-ID: <7DDE3DDC-99AC-4C49-959B-F1454CD20CF9@mcgill.ca> Dear BIC Community: I hope everyone is enjoying the nice summer days. I thought this would be timely to look back at the past year of your favorite brain imaging platform. There have been indeed quite a few changes and important news and events to reflect on, before gearing up for the upcoming academic year. New faculty & staff: We are very fortunate to have Prof Rick Hoge and Prof Gassan Massarweh onboard as new leaders of the MRI and Radiochemistry/Cyclotron Units, respectively. The Radiochemistry/PET Unit has also recruited two new RAs (Dr. Iness Hammami & Mrs Qian Ying (Sandy) Li), following the departure of Mr. Wajih Ben Tahar and Mr. Jie Zhang. New faculty members are being recruited at the MNI (thanks in part to major ameliorations of BIC finances - see below), with at least 3 imaging experts (users/methods) on the radar. Retirement: Mr. Andr? Cormier has retired after 30+ years of service at the BIC MRI Unit: thank you and good luck, Andr?! Best wishes also to Ellie Tobman (Admin Assistant to the MRS Unit), for her retirement. Departures: Dr. Barry Bedell has now joined the MUHC-RI. Small-animal imaging is now under Rick?s (MRI) and Dr. Jean-Paul Soucy (PET) leaderships. Dr. Andrew Reader has moved back to his home country, taking a position at King?s College (London). Andrew remains adjunct faculty with the BIC/McGill. BIC30: We have celebrated in February our first 30 years as the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, with 350 guests and international keynote speakers. It?s been a fun event for which we raised $40,000 from sponsors. Check out the picture gallery: https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/about-us/gallery (also features great BIC memorabilia). A big thank-you again to all helpers and co-organizers! Website: We have a new website (https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/): thanks to the great help and contributions from many. Let me know if you?d like to have a page under your name/lab added. The previous, complementary wiki (bic.mni.mcgill.ca) will continue to remain online. Governance: An elected BIC Council has been formed. Check out who your reps are and drop a message to raise a point to be discussed at the next Council meeting (meets in alternance with BIC faculty meetings): https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/about-us/governance . Finances: It is no secret that the past 2 years have seen substantial reorganization in our financial structure, to consolidate and streamline our operations. I want to thank all our staff for their dedication, patience and passion in this period of turbulence and uncertainty. Although the situation remains fragile, our finances have considerably improved: - Overall, we have reduced our operating expenses by $1.5M over the past 18 months, and increased our revenues by $200,000. We now recover 85% of our operating costs from scanning fees and PET tracer production (was 55% back in 2013) - rest is direct support from the MNI. - We have recovered $470,000 in outstanding payments that remained due to the BIC. It hasn?t bee a fun experience for anyone, but it paid off. Thank you all for your patience and special thanks to those who contributed, and kudos to Helene Day (BIC Finance Manager) for her perseverance and dedication. An additional $225,000 in outstanding payments will be collected in the present financial year. - Taken together, we have raised and collected $2.67M over the past 12 months towards BIC operations. This includes a $1-M donation from the R.H. Webster Family Foundation (to be announced officially shortly) towards renovations and upgrades of the PET/Cyclotron Unit, and the creation of a BIC open data warehouse to centralize and curate all data collected on our scanners (more on that this coming winter) - PET usage has increased +60% over the past year. Further, we have mobilized the PET user community (MNI, McGill, Douglas, Jewish General Hospital) to contribute $200,000 towards the purchase of a new synthesis module for the production of highly specific 11C tracers, which are in high demand. The module is being installed and tested now. - MRI usage has increased +30% over last semester - With 650 sessions booked, MEG (last Core Unit installed in 2011) is now the second busiest scanner at the BIC (3T MRI is first) - These good numbers have contributed to the MNI now recruiting 6 new Faculty members (2 more than the 4 positions initially scheduled). Major grant obtained: - $17.2M were allocated by CFI, Quebec and McGill towards the purchase of the first large-bore 7-T MRI scanner in the Province. Congrats again to Dr. Amir Shmuel for leading the successful application. The project has now entered its execution phase, under the leadership of Dr. Hoge. Dr. Shmuel is Chairman of the Scientific Committee and Co-director of this new 7-T platform. Installation is anticipated by end of 2016/early 2017. Coming ahead: - New, convenient and robust web-based booking and billing software developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine is under deployment - Upgrade of our 3T to Prisma is scheduled in the coming year - BIC lectures series resume Sept 14 @ 1pm (de Grandpr?) - new special topics series on the radar (more on that later) - and certainly much more? Finally, a committee will be formed in the early fall to search for a permanent Director of the BIC. With all that, I?d like to wish you all again a great, restful summertime. 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Sylvain. ------------------------------------------------------ Thanh DANG-VU, MD PhD Neurologist, Assistant Professor Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health CIHR New Investigator Director, Sleep and Brain Health Lab Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology & PERFORM Center Dpt of Exercise Science, Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, SP 165.27 Montreal H4B 1R6 Tel: (514) 848-2424, Ext 3364 http://www.concordia.ca/research/neuroscience/faculty.html?fpid=thanh-dang-vu Institut Universitaire de G?riatrie de Montr?al (IUGM) Dpt de Neurosciences, Universit? de Montr?al 4545 chemin Queen-Mary, M6822 Montreal H3W 1W5 Tel: (514) 340-3540, Ext 3991 http://www.criugm.qc.ca/en/researchers/laboratory-directors/206-thien-thanh-dang-vu.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I am glad to report that Ms. Katarina Pessina has joined us as of last week. Katarina is now up to speed and is helping us out catching up with the backlog of unprocessed bills and payments. Incidentally, Katarina is also a bright McGill neuroscience student looking for an MSc project and supervisor at the IPN for the winter term (more cell biology than imaging though, but who knows ;) ?). She is CC?d here. We should be back to baseline, having collected all payments within the next month. Please make sure the accounts you were planning to use for payment are still open and with sufficient funds. Thank you all for your patience and understanding, Sylvain. Ps/ Stacey will be returning later this year. 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Best, Krys Krys (Christine) Dudek | Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis (CREATE-MIA) | Centre for Intelligent Machines | McGill University | McConnell Engineering, Room 410 | 3480 University Street | Montreal, QC H3A 0E9 | Tel: 514-398-6319 | cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Segmentation of biomedical images using geodesic methods Laurent D. COHEN CEREMADE, UMR cNRS 7534, University Paris Dauphine, France Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75016 Paris, France cohen at ceremade.dauphine.fr http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~cohen Tubular and tree structures appear very commonly in biomedical images like vessels, microtubules or neuron cells. Minimal paths have been used for long as an interactive tool to segment these structures as cost minimizing curves. The user usually provides start and end points on the image and gets the minimal path as output. These minimal paths correspond to minimal geodesics according to some adapted metric. They are a way to find a (set of) curve(s) globally minimizing the geodesic active contours energy. Finding a geodesic distance can be solved by the Eikonal equation using the fast and efficient Fast Marching method. Different metrics can be adapted to various problems. In the past years we have introduced different extensions of these minimal paths that improve either the interactive aspects or the results. For example, the metric can take into account both scale and orientation of the path. This leads to solving an anisotropic minimal path in a 2D or 3D+radius space. On a different level, the user interaction can be minimized by adding iteratively what we called the keypoints, for example to obtain a closed curve from a single initial point. The result is then a set of minimal paths between pairs of keypoints. This can also be applied to branching structures in both 2D and 3D images. Geodesic Voting consists in computing geodesics between a given source point and a set of points scattered in the image. The geodesic density is defined at each pixel of the image as the number of geodesics that pass over this pixel. The target structure corresponds to image points with a high geodesic density. We will illustrate different possible applications of this approach. In this talk we will present recent methods based on geodesics for biomedical applications, like automatic segmentation of vascular tree in retinal images. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurent Cohen Directeur de Recherche CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534, Universite Paris Dauphine PSL* Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris cedex 16, France Tel. (33-1) 44 05 46 78 Fax (33-1) 44 05 45 99 mailto:Cohen at ceremade.dauphine.fr Home Page: http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~cohen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca Fri Aug 28 11:36:24 2015 From: kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca (Christine Dudek) Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:36:24 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Seminar: Prof. Laurent Cohen - Tuesday Sept. 1, 11am to 12noon in McConnell Engineering Room 437 References: <1CA84D9A-1014-4338-8F32-4E825FE11004@cim.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: Dear all, The talk by Prof. Cohen will take place on Tuesday Sept. 1, 11am to 12noon in McConnell Engineering Room 437. Best, Krys Krys (Christine) Dudek | Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis (CREATE-MIA) | Centre for Intelligent Machines | McGill University | McConnell Engineering, Room 410 | 3480 University Street | Montreal, QC H3A 0E9 | Tel: 514-398-6319 | cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia Begin forwarded message: > From: Christine Dudek > Subject: Seminar: Prof. Laurent Cohen - Tuesday Sept. 1, 11am to 12noon in McConnell Engineering Room 437 > Date: August 28, 2015 at 9:52:40 AM GMT-4 > To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca > > Dear all, > > This announcement is being sent on behalf of Prof. Kaleem Siddiqi (McGill School of Computer Science & Centre for Intelligent Machines). > > All are invited to attend. > > Best, > > Krys > > Krys (Christine) Dudek | Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis (CREATE-MIA) | Centre for Intelligent Machines | McGill University | McConnell Engineering, Room 410 | 3480 University Street | Montreal, QC H3A 0E9 | Tel: 514-398-6319 | cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Segmentation of biomedical images using geodesic methods > Laurent D. COHEN > CEREMADE, UMR cNRS 7534, University Paris Dauphine, France > Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75016 Paris, France > cohen at ceremade.dauphine.fr > http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~cohen > > Tubular and tree structures appear very commonly in biomedical images like vessels, microtubules > or neuron cells. Minimal paths have been used for long as an interactive tool to segment these > structures as cost minimizing curves. The user usually provides start and end points on the image > and gets the minimal path as output. These minimal paths correspond to minimal geodesics > according to some adapted metric. They are a way to find a (set of) curve(s) globally minimizing the > geodesic active contours energy. Finding a geodesic distance can be solved by the Eikonal equation > using the fast and efficient Fast Marching method. Different metrics can be adapted to various > problems. In the past years we have introduced different extensions of these minimal paths that > improve either the interactive aspects or the results. For example, the metric can take into account > both scale and orientation of the path. This leads to solving an anisotropic minimal path in a 2D or > 3D+radius space. On a different level, the user interaction can be minimized by adding iteratively > what we called the keypoints, for example to obtain a closed curve from a single initial point. The > result is then a set of minimal paths between pairs of keypoints. This can also be applied to > branching structures in both 2D and 3D images. > Geodesic Voting consists in computing geodesics between a given source point and a set of points > scattered in the image. The geodesic density is defined at each pixel of the image as the number of > geodesics that pass over this pixel. The target structure corresponds to image points with a high > geodesic density. We will illustrate different possible applications of this approach. > > In this talk we will present recent methods based on geodesics for biomedical applications, like > automatic segmentation of vascular tree in retinal images. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Laurent Cohen > Directeur de Recherche > CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534, Universite Paris Dauphine PSL* > Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny > 75775 Paris cedex 16, France > Tel. (33-1) 44 05 46 78 Fax (33-1) 44 05 45 99 > mailto:Cohen at ceremade.dauphine.fr > Home Page: http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~cohen > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: