[visionlist] VSS Meeting Satellite/Workshop on Open and Reproducible Neuroimaging

[Mark Schira]

Hi Everybody,
We, Noah Benson, Fernada Ribeiro and Mark Schira, will be running a
Workshop as a Satellite to this year's Vision Science Society Meeting in
St. Pete Beach, FL.
*Date and Place:** Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, Banyan/Citrus*
*Website:* https://nben.net/vss2024
The workshop will discuss fMRIprep
<https://fmriprep.org/en/stable/index.html>, BIDS
<https://bids.neuroimaging.io/>, Neurodesk
<https://www.neurodesk.org/>, population
receptive field (PRF) modeling tools 1
<https://github.com/vistalab/PRFmodel>, and machine learning techniques
including CNNs. Lectures will focus on live-coding examples of the relevant
software tools when possible, and all participants will be given access to
a shared compute environment that includes all discussed software and
numerous tutorials. A small Registration
<https://nben.net/vss2024/register/> fee ($10-$50) will cover the costs for
providing the cloud based compute environment running Neurodesk
<https://www.neurodesk.org/> for at least one month after the workshop.

The workshop will consist of three sessions with short breaks between:

   1. Mark Schira <https://schiralab.com/> will discuss the use of
   reproducible software tools for lab management, classroom settings, and
   high performance compute clusters. Mark will demonstrate the Neurodesk
   <https://www.neurodesk.org/> platform, which drastically simplifies the
   management, installation, versioning, and use of numerous open source
   neuroimaging software tools across environments.
   2. Noah C. Benson <https://nben.net/> will walk through the processing
   of visual MRI data using fMRIprep
   <https://fmriprep.org/en/stable/index.html>, BIDS
   <https://bids.neuroimaging.io/>, and Python tools for visualization,
   analysis, and annotation of cortical surface data. Noah will demonstrate
   these tools in live-coded examples in which a pipeline is established from
   start to finish for examining data from visual MRI experiments.
   3. Fernanda L. Ribeiro <https://felenitaribeiro.github.io/> will discuss
   and demonstrate machine learning tools, including convolutional neural
   networks (CNNs) on retinotopic mapping data modelling complex relationships
   in visual data.

More information, including advice on preparing for the workshop
<https://nben.net/vss2024/prep/>, can be found on the website 2
<https://nben.net/vss2024>. Please contact Noah Benson <nben at uw.edu> with
any questions.
Kindest
Mark

-- 
Mark M. Schira, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong
Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia
office:+ 61 (0) 2 4239-2501
mobile: +61 (0) 4059 54853
https://schiralab.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-0498
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