ACCS launches into 2022 with a new Brain Imaging Workshop Series. During the first public lecture, Dr Chao Suo from Monash University will introduce the topic of structural MRI analysis. Dr Suo will explore how researchers can use the Characterisation Virtual Laboratory (CVL) to achieve complex workflows for their analyses.
About
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most commonly used methods in neuroscience research. The CVL has provided a suite of imaging processing tools and pipelines for various MR modalities. Many popular imaging tools (e.g. Freesurfer, FSL, SPM, fMRIprep, MRtrix) have been pre-installed and are available to users in a number of different versions [1]. Together with the large capacity of the parallel computing system available at MASSIVE, the CVL platform helps researchers to process and visualise their data [2]. Throughout 2022, ACCS will be hosting workshops to introduce users to some of these analysis applications and how they can deploy them on CVL in their research.
https://docs.massive.org.au/M3/software/m3availablemodules.html#m3availablemodules
Goscinski et al. (2014) The multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualization Environment (MASSIVE) high performance computing infrastructure: applications in neuroscience and neuroinformatics research. https://doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00030.
Topics covered:
For this lecture, Dr Chao Suo is going to focus on sMRI (structural MRI), and showcase how to perform some basic preprocessing tasks (such as segmentation) on CVL. He will then and further parallel conduct these process using SLURM system. A hands-on session will be run next week (31 March 2022) in which users can use practice data or bring-your-own data to run these pipelines on CVL. The follow-up hands-on session will be suitable for those who are about to or just starting their journey of brain imaging processing or those with some background already but who would like to explore these imaging applications work within the CVL environment.
For those who would like to further develop their hands-on skills, there will be a follow-up workshop on 31 March 2022. Please register separately for the workshop.
Event details
Date
24 March, 2022
Time
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEDT (12:00 noon – 1:00 pm AEST; 10:00 am – 11:00 am AWST)
Location
online event
Host organisation
Australian Characterisation Commons at Scale (ACCS) Project