| The life cycle of Medical Imaging data
| HST-583, MIT |
Course Description
fMRI provides powerful capabilities for minimally invasive studies of the brain response to various stimuli. Given the challenges in understanding the temporal and spatial changes
observed in the brain, any fMRI study is highly interdisciplinary. Image analysis plays a decisive role in the extraction of diagnostic and metabolic information on the patient.
This course covers the different stages of the life cycle of medical imaging data, from data acquisition to statistical analysis.
Course Material
This course includes hands-on sessions using 3DSlicer, an open-source software for research in medical imaging analysis.
Download the executable Slicer2.6 Linux x86, and
the pre-computed dataset.
Course Report
The
course report is a
series of exercises based on the fMRI study presented in the
class.
Due date: October 30, 2006.