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Host: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Homepage: http://www.ima.umn.edu/multimedia/fall/ms1.html
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Organizers: Guillermo Sapiro (ECE), Dan Kersten (CCS), Gordon Legge (CCS), Sheng He (CCS), Xiaoping Hu (CMRR), Kamil Ugurbil (CMRR)
Description:
The study of the human brain and its perceptual, cognitive, and motor functions is without any doubt one of the most challenging
and fascinating topics of contemporary science. Recent years have seen significant advances in the application of sophisticated
mathematical theories and visualization techniques to the problems arising in brain imaging modalities such as PET, EEG, MEG,
optical imaging, and functional MRI. Fundamental problems like image registration, signal detection, surface warping, surface
visualization, inter-subject registration, and inverse problems have to be addressed in order to fully utilize these techniques. All
this research is carried out by interdisciplinary teams including radiologists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists,
neuroscientists, and cognitive scientists. It is the goal of this workshop to bring together these teams. The Minisymposium will
fundamentally include two types of lectures. One part will cover the techniques used to solve some of the
mathematical/engineering problems raised by brain imaging research. The second component will include lectures on the use of
brain imaging to advance our knowledge about the cognitive processes in the human brain. Introductory lectures about brain
imaging modalities will be presented as well.
Date received: February 02, 2000
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