From boris.bernhardt at mcgill.ca Mon May 19 08:43:27 2025 From: boris.bernhardt at mcgill.ca (Boris Bernhardt) Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 12:43:27 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Brain gradients 2025 OHBM satellite on June 23rd in Brisbane Message-ID: <5C2638AB-484A-4AAC-B4E6-93A00B72E573@mcgill.ca> Hi BIC & FYI: The 5th edition of our annual brain gradients workshop is happening soon! Please join us on June 23rd in Brisbane, just one day before OHBM, for a full day of gradients! Infos on the program (amazing speakers!), abstract submission (please submit, we?re also selecting flash talks), and registration (low cost) here: https://gradients-workshop.github.io/ Boris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Sridar From: NeuroEvents Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 9:58?AM Subject: Killam Seminar Series - 7T MRI for Multiple Sclerosis: Insights into Pathology and Future Directions - May 27, 4 p.m. [cid:image001.png at 01DB20B4.614F4A30] [cid:image002.png at 01DB214F.D7DA1BD0] Please see further below for English version Killam Seminar Series: 7T MRI for Multiple Sclerosis: Insights into Pathology and Future Directions Daniel M. Harrison Professeur et vice-pr?sident pour la recherche, d?partement de neurologie, ?cole de m?decine de l'universit? du Maryland H?te: Sridar Narayanan Mardi 27 mai 2025 16 h 00 HNE Centre de Communications de Grandpr?, Le Neuro [cid:image004.png at 01DB214F.D7DA1BD0] *La pr?sentation sera en anglais ________________________________ Killam Seminar Series: 7T MRI for Multiple Sclerosis: Insights into Pathology and Future Directions Daniel M. Harrison Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine Host: Sridar Narayanan Tuesday, May 27, 2025 4 p.m. EST De Grandpr? Communications Centre, The Neuro [cid:image003.png at 01DB2150.2DF0FCF0] Abstract: Ultra-high field, 7 Tesla (7T) MRI has provided a powerful in vivo tool for understanding the pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the clinical impact of pathologic changes. This tool holds additional promise as a method for improve diagnostics, treatment efficacy monitoring, and as an outcome measure for clinical trials. In this talk, we will accomplish the following objectives: 1. To review contributions of 7T MRI to our understanding of the impact of cortical and deep gray matter and chronic active white matter lesions 2. To review 7T MRI methods for measuring blood brain barrier breakdown and meningeal/lymphatic pathology 3. 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I will also demonstrate improvements to the 'TractoFlow' pipelines to support high-resolution dMRI. Le Zhou; PI, Danilo Bzdok Title: "On night owls and early birds: insights from multimodal population studies" Summary: Chronotype is shaped by a complex interplay of endogenous and exogenous factors, varies across lifespan, and is linked to health risks. Moving beyond uniform classifications, we identified five distinct chronotype subtypes using multimodal brain imaging and deep phenotyping in 27,030 UK biobank adults. Each subtype showed unique brain-behavior-health patterns, validated in 10,550 US children with reversed age effects. These findings reveal previously overlooked population variation in biological clocks, with implications spanning from childhood to adulthood. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While I?ve never had grants to support minc directly, I?ve used funds from other projects to support Vlad?s salary as he spent half his time to work on minc tools as we needed them in my lab. We?ve also invested a lot of time (and $$) fixing bugs and assisting other groups with their processing needs. Mallar, Jason, Andrew and others have done the same. At this time, my grants are running out, and I can no longer afford to support minc as we?ve done in the past. for a few months last fall, Julien provided some financial help (20% of an FTE), but that aid ended early this year. I learned about this new dcm2mnc issue last week that affects all those that use Seimens MRI data in minc format acquired in the past few months. This issue calls into the question the sufficiency of volunteer MNC support. Some have suggested to drop MINC altogether and to use other tools based on nifti/BIDS. I believe that MINC support requires specific funding. For everyone in the bic-announce list, I am curious to know how many people are using MINC at present. Please respond with ?YES - I?m using MINC? (or "no, not using MINC?). If YES, please also say if you?d like to continue using minc. If no, would you use minc if it was supported/documented? Feel free to reply all in this mailing list, or directly to me by email. my goal is to get a count of those using minc tools as soon as possible. there is a meeting this week to discuss the future of minc. thanks. -Louis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From marco.leyton at mcgill.ca Mon May 26 16:15:38 2025 From: marco.leyton at mcgill.ca (Marco Leyton, Dr) Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 20:15:38 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] the future of MINC and MINC support - need 2 min. In-Reply-To: <4458C544-0390-4564-B91D-DAAF5D6BDCDF@mcgill.ca> References: <4458C544-0390-4564-B91D-DAAF5D6BDCDF@mcgill.ca> Message-ID: Hi Louis, Many many thanks to you, Mallar and others for keeping MINC running all these years. So much has been accomplished with it. As of now, though, my team no longer uses it. Best wishes, Marco From: BIC-announce on behalf of Louis Collins, Mr Date: Monday, May 26, 2025 at 10:23?AM To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: [BIC-announce] the future of MINC and MINC support - need 2 min. Hi all, I?m sending this email to bic-annouce, minc-users and minc-developers. Forgive me if you get multiple similar copies, each one has different questions addressed to the specific mailing list audience. Along with cutting edge neuro-imaging devices, the MINC software tools are an integral part of the success that have enabled the BIC to achieve world-wide recognition in neuroscience. Unfortunately, a recent DICOM to MINC conversion issue (left-right flipping in MRI) has called into question the future of minc. The minc file format, API, and all image analysis pipelines have been supported mostly on a volunteer basis for at least the past decade. While I?ve never had grants to support minc directly, I?ve used funds from other projects to support Vlad?s salary as he spent half his time to work on minc tools as we needed them in my lab. We?ve also invested a lot of time (and $$) fixing bugs and assisting other groups with their processing needs. Mallar, Jason, Andrew and others have done the same. At this time, my grants are running out, and I can no longer afford to support minc as we?ve done in the past. for a few months last fall, Julien provided some financial help (20% of an FTE), but that aid ended early this year. I learned about this new dcm2mnc issue last week that affects all those that use Seimens MRI data in minc format acquired in the past few months. This issue calls into the question the sufficiency of volunteer MNC support. Some have suggested to drop MINC altogether and to use other tools based on nifti/BIDS. I believe that MINC support requires specific funding. For everyone in the bic-announce list, I am curious to know how many people are using MINC at present. Please respond with ?YES - I?m using MINC? (or "no, not using MINC?). If YES, please also say if you?d like to continue using minc. If no, would you use minc if it was supported/documented? Feel free to reply all in this mailing list, or directly to me by email. my goal is to get a count of those using minc tools as soon as possible. there is a meeting this week to discuss the future of minc. thanks. -Louis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Neuro Epilepsy Day - May 29, 2025 > Date: May 22, 2025 at 11:20:48?AM EDT > To: x-MNI All Staff <000-MNIAllStaff at campus.mcgill.ca>, x-MNI Postdocs Staff <000-MNIPostdocsStaff at campus.mcgill.ca>, "mni-gradstudents at lists.mcgill.ca" , "neuro-seminars at lists.mcgill.ca" > > ? ? > > Please see further below for English version > > Neuro Epilepsy Day 2025 > Jeudi 29 mai 2025 > Amphith??tre Jeanne-Timmins, Le Neuro > > ? > > Neuro Epilepsy Day 2025 > Thursday, May 29, 2025 > Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre, The Neuro > > ? > Join us for an exciting half-day gathering that brings together clinicians, researchers, and trainees to explore neurodegeneration and tauopathy in epilepsy, and how they affect cognition and disease progression. > What to Expect > > 11:00 a.m. ? Trainee Presentations > > 12:15 p.m. ? Lunch & Poster Session > > 1:45 p.m. ? 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However, several users have noted issues with the conversion to minc (this includes the version that currently runs on the dicomserver and thus the images in /data/dicom/minc/). This can result in images not being converted at all or more subtle effects such as left-right flipping. As we work towards a more permanent solution to this issue, we are currently suggesting you convert the dicoms to nii (dcm2niix) and then back to mnc (nii2mnc). You might also consider adding a vitamin E pill next to all your participants' right temple, in order to control for any flipping. Please note that any fixes to the dicom to minc conversion software will be done on a volunteer basis and will take time since there is no dedicated funding for minc development and maintenance available at this time. A notice to bic-announce will be made when the software is ready. 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Please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HZ9DPV8 Ziqi Hao; PI, Amir Shmuel Title: "High-resolution diffusion-MRI-based tractography of U-fibers using a conventional 3 Tesla scanner" Summary: In this talk, I will demonstrate that short axonal bundles can be imaged reliably using a 3 Tesla Prisma scanner with a conventional gradient system. I will also demonstrate improvements to the 'TractoFlow' pipelines to support high-resolution dMRI. Le Zhou; PI, Danilo Bzdok Title: "On night owls and early birds: insights from multimodal population studies" Summary: Chronotype is shaped by a complex interplay of endogenous and exogenous factors, varies across lifespan, and is linked to health risks. Moving beyond uniform classifications, we identified five distinct chronotype subtypes using multimodal brain imaging and deep phenotyping in 27,030 UK biobank adults. Each subtype showed unique brain-behavior-health patterns, validated in 10,550 US children with reversed age effects. 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