Lab creators
This is a template for
the HST 563 lab websites. The HST 563 labs are intended to include a practical,
on-site imaging experience (2 hrs, Wednesday, 4-6 PM) with a demonstration of
the imaging technology, followed by a lab write-up, involving some
questions/exercises (e.g. image processing of canned data-sets). The website
should provide all of the materials, or at least links, needed to prepare for
the lab practical and complete the lab exercises. Hopefully the practical and
the exercises work synergistically and provide a comprehensive understanding of
the material! Data files for the lab exercises will be loaded to the mit Athena course locker: http://web.mit.edu/hst.563/ and available for download. Please consider
this template as a loose format and fill in the parts that you feel are
necessary for your particular lab. I’ve tried to follow the format used
previously in HST 583 (see e.g. http://web.mit.edu/~jmelcher/www/HST583/Lab3_handout2006.htm)
As you develop the content, send me the material and I
will package it into a website. Thanks for all of your help; I hope this will
be a successful and helpful course. ~ Scott Raymond
Contents:
outline of the website
Overview/goals of lab exercise
The background should provide brief descriptions of the
specific imaging technology and image processing techniques (i.e. a few
paragraphs) and should reference seminal papers for more detail.
You should include a list of papers on the specific
techniques used in the lab, as well as a few more general background references
on the technology (e.g. MR basics) for those that might not have taken HST 561.
I will check with Alan Jasanoff (instructor for HST
561) to see if we can post some of his background material. Total reading
material can be significant; please send me pdf
copies and I will post them in the course locker.
A brief description of the lab practical
and exercise. It would be good to formulate the didactic goals of the
lab, i.e. learn techniques of rigid coregistration.
This will help in the formulation of the lab.
A succinct description of what the students should turn in,
i.e. “a five page report with answers to the pre-lab homework and lab
exercises.” Students like to know explicitly what the finished product should
look like (at least I do!).
Pre-lab exercises should include any problem-sets or
software training that will be needed to fully maximize the on-site imaging
experience.
A tutorial would be applicable if there is a specific
software package used for the lab exercise (e.g. freesurfer).
We can simply link to your pre-developed tutorial, or work to build a small
tutorial.
It might be nice to work through a few simple problems on
fundamental ideas (e.g. FFT) before on-site imaging.
The lab exercise should be thought of as the take-home
portion of the lab which forms the bulk of the lab-writeup
(the finished document that gets graded). It should include some sort of data
processing, perhaps including a walk-through/example of the image processing technique,
code writing (preferable in matlab or other
widely-known software package), and questions to probe understanding of the
material. I’m sure this section will vary the most from lab to lab, but it
should at least include a series of questions that can be answered (and
graded!).
This section should link the student to the data (e.g. found
in course locker) and have simple instructions about what to do with the data
(e.g. FFT the data series). Questions can be interspersed.
Questions can be actual problems (e.g. remove the shot noise
from image A) or more open-ended discussion questions (e.g. what are the
advantages/disadvantages of signal averaging?)