[MINC-users] Call for participation: Fiber Tractography Challenge at ISMRM 2015

[Maxime Descoteaux]

[SORRY IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE]

Dear Colleagues: 

The Diffusion Study Group is sponsoring a novel Fiber Tractography Challenge to stimulate an interactive discussion on diffusion reconstruction and tractography methods at this year’s study group meeting at ISMRM 2015 in Toronto. The Challenge will use a simulated but highly realistic diffusion-weighted dataset in which 26 specific white matter bundles have been used to generate synthetic data that awaits your processing and analysis.

The Challenge, developed by diffusion experts

Peter Neher, Jean-Christophe Houde, Emmanuel Caruyer, Alessandro Daducci, Tim Dyrby, Klaus Maier-Hein, Bram Stieltjes, and Maxime Descoteaux

has been designed to emulate clinically-realistic acquisition. Several common artifacts have been introduced in the data to probe the strengths and limitations of your processing pipelines. All entries will receive individualized feedback and statistics comparing their results to the ground truth white matter bundles. A discussion of the methods and results will be held at the DSG meeting at ISMRM 2015, scheduled for Monday June 1 from 4:30-6:30pm in Reception Hall 105.

For additional details, including information about the data, evaluation methods, and submission procedures, and to download the data, please visit the challenge website at 

http://www.tractometer.org/ismrm_2015_challenge/

An ISMRM virtual conference (date soon to be announced) will be held to present the Challenge, and one full hour of the study group meeting in Toronto will be dedicated to discussion and result presentations. Further questions regarding the challenge should be directed to  tractometer at gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto. 

Ready, track, go!

ISMRM Diffusion Study Group