[Mne_analysis] Fwd: From raw MEG to publication - BIOMAG16 satellite workshop, Oct 2, 2016

[Marijn van Vliet]

That sounds really cool!

Who’s going to be MNE’s research team?
 
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Marijn van Vliet
w.m.vanvliet at gmail.com





> On 15 Sep 2016, at 18:06, Alexandre Gramfort <alexandre.gramfort at telecom-paristech.fr> wrote:
> 
> [message from Vladimir Litvak]
> 
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Apologies in advance for cross-posting. We would like to attract your
> attention to the BIOMAG2016 satellite symposium which will take place
> on Oct 2nd 2016 and is dedicated to group analysis of MEG data with
> free academic toolboxes. Please read the full description below.
> 
> With best wishes,
> 
> Arnaud Delorme
> Alexandre Gramfort
> Vladimir Litvak
> Srikantan Nagarajan
> Robert Oostenveld
> Francois Tadel
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> From raw MEG to publication: how to perform MEG group analysis with
> free academic software.
> 
> 
> Organisers: Arnaud Delorme, Alexandre Gramfort, Vladimir Litvak,
> Srikantan Nagarajan, Robert Oostenveld, Francois Tadel
> 
> 
> Free academic toolboxes have gained increasing prominence in MEG
> analysis as a means to disseminate cutting edge methods, share best
> practices between different research groups and pool resources for
> developing essential tools for the MEG community. In the recent years
> large and vibrant research communities have emerged around several of
> these toolboxes. Teaching events are regularly held around the world
> where the basics of each toolbox are explained by its respective
> developers and experienced power users. There are, however, two
> knowledge gaps that our BIOMAG satellite symposium aims to address.
> Firstly, most teaching examples only show analysis of a single
> ‘typical best’ subject whereas most real MEG studies involve analysis
> of group data. It is then left to the researchers in the field to
> figure out for themselves how to make the transition and obtain
> significant group results. Secondly, we are not familiar with any
> examples of fully analyzing the same group dataset with different
> academic toolboxes to assess the degree of agreement in scientific
> conclusions and compare strengths and weaknesses of various analysis
> methods and their independent implementations. Our workshop is
> organised by the lead developers of six most popular free academic MEG
> toolboxes (in alphabetic order): Brainstorm, EEGLAB, FieldTrip, MNE,
> NUTMEG, and SPM. Ahead of the workshop the research team for each
> toolbox will analyze the same group MEG/EEG dataset. This dataset
> containing evoked responses to face stimuli was acquired by Richard
> Henson and Daniel Wakeman, who won a special award at BIOMAG2010 to
> make it freely available to the community. All the raw data are
> available at
> 
> 
> ftp://ftp.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/personal/rik.henson/wakemandg_hensonrn/
> 
> and
> 
> https://openfmri.org/dataset/ds000117/
> 
> 
> Detailed instructions for each toolbox will be made available online
> including analysis scripts and figures of results. All analyses will
> show a full pipeline from the raw data to detailed publication quality
> results. Researchers who are interested in using the respective
> toolbox will then be able to reproduce the analysis in their lab and
> port it to their own data.
> 
> At the workshop each group will briefly introduce their software and
> present the key results from their analysis. This will be followed by
> a panel discussion and questions from the audience.
> 
> Following the event we plan to integrate the suggestions and questions
> from the workshop audience and to publish the analyses details as part
> of a special research topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience, section
> Brain Imaging Methods so that the proposed best practices will be
> endorsed by peer review and become citable in future publications.
> Other research groups will be invited to contribute to the research
> topic as long as they present detailed descriptions of analyses of
> group data that are freely available online and make it possible for
> others to fully reproduce their analysis and results.
> 
> 
> We hope that this proposal will lead to creation of invaluable
> resource for the whole MEG community and the workshop will contribute
> to establishment of good practice and promoting consistent and
> reproducible analysis approaches. The event will also showcase all the
> toolboxes and will be of interest to beginners in the field with basic
> background in MEG who contemplate the most suitable analysis approach
> and software for their study as well as to experienced researchers who
> would like to get up to date with the latest methodological
> developments.
> 
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