<div dir="ltr"><div><b>Workshop on Open and Reproducible Neuroimaging Software at the Vision Sciences Society’s 2024 Meeting</b><br></div><div><br></div><div>How to Stop Worrying and Love Computational Neuroimaging
of the Visual Cortex at this year’s VSS meeting in St. Pete Beach, FL.
The workshop is a VSS satellite event that will introduce participants
to a variety of open source software tools that make reproducible
computational neuroimaging and teaching easy. The workshop will discuss
fMRIprep, BIDS, Neurodesk, population receptive field (PRF) modeling
tools, 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.<br><br>A
small registration fee is required to help offset costs for the compute
environment, which will remain available to participants for one month
following the VSS conference. The workshop will not be live-streamed but
materials will be made public after the event.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_lvoi2zxw0" alt="image.png" width="578" height="470"><br></div><div><br></div><div>The workshop will consist of three sessions with short breaks between:<br><br>Mark
Schira will discuss the use of reproducible software tools for lab
management, classroom settings, and high performance compute clusters.
Mark will demonstrate the Neurodesk platform, which drastically
simplifies the management, installation, versioning, and use of numerous
open source neuroimaging software tools across environments.<br>Noah C.
Benson will walk through the processing of visual MRI data using
fMRIprep, BIDS, 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.<br>Fernanda L.
Ribeiro will discuss and demonstrate machine learning tools, including
convolutional neural networks (CNNs), that model complex relationships
in visual data.<br>More information, including advice on preparing for
the workshop, can be found on the website. Please contact <a href="mailto:nben@uw.edu">nben@uw.edu</a>
<a href="mailto:mark.schira@gmail.com">mark.schira@gmail.com</a> or <a href="mailto:felenita.ribeiro@gmail.com">felenita.ribeiro@gmail.com</a> with any questions.<div class="gmail-adL"><br><br></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Mark M. Schira, Ph.D.<br>Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong<br>Senior Research Officer, Neuroscience Research Australia<br>office:+ 61 (0) 2 4239-2501<br>mobile: +61 (0) 4059 54853<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://schiralab.com/" target="_blank">https://schiralab.com/</a><br></div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-0498" target="_blank">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7945-0498</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>