NIF Webinar - Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT

Hello everyone,

The next NIF Webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 11:00 am PDT.   Please join Jesse Brown as he discusses The UCLA Multimodal Connectivity Database.

The following is a description of the webinar:

The UCLA Multimodal Connectivity Database (UMCD; http://umcd.ccn.ucla.edu) is a new web-based effort to collect, categorize, and share connectivivty matrices that have been dervied from neuroimaging data. As the number of macroscopic brain connectivity studies has rapidly expanded and the number of publications has grown, the need for a repository for such data has become vital. The UMCD specifically caters to data from studies that have derived whole brain connectivity matrices to quantify the pairwise connection strength between any pair of regions in the brain. Connection strength can be determined using structural or functional measures of connection strength, such as diffusion tensory imaging tractography track density or functional MRI timeseries correlation. We designed the UMCD in order to make it easy to share connectivity matrices with sufficient meta information to make them searchable and visualizable by anyone who is interested. Any user can visit the site, browse all the publicly shared data, choose a network of interest based on a variety of criteria (age, disorder, imaging modality, etc.), and then analzye the network. This analysis is run on the fly in the cloud, quickly producing a report on the network's global and local connectivity properties. Both interactive 3D and 2D visualizations are shown that depict the connection strengths and various regional properties. We hope that through data sharing on the UMCD, we will 1) enable large scale meta-analyses and classification efforts of connectivity matrix data, 2) provide prior probabilities for future experiments probing connectivity between specific regions, 3) sync up with other databases in an effort to synthesize brain connectivity data at the micro and macroscale. In this presentation I will demonstrate how to share data on the site, find specific data, and run an analysis of  publicly shared data.

Date and Time: Tuesday,October 25, 2011 • 11:00-12:00 PDT
Topic: The UCLA Multimodal Connectivity Database
Presenter: Jesse Brown
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll-free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739

Mark your calendars! See you there.

The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) hosts a semi-regular Tuesday Webinar series on topics focused on collaborating with NIF, getting involved in building the NIF vocabulary, using NIF portal resources, as well as other appropriate NIF topics.

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