58308302 Seminar: Neuroinformatics

Topic: Advanced data analysis methods in brain imaging

Seminar for Master's and PhD students in English, 3 cu (ECTS), 2008-09

Teacher

Aapo Hyvärinen

Schedule

17/09-08/10/2008 and 29/10-26/11/2008 on Wednesdays at 14:15-15:45 o'clock in lecture hall C220 (Exactum).

Target audience

Master's and PhD students in statistics (incl. EuroBayes), computer science (specialization in algorithms & machine learning, intelligent systems, or bioinformatics), or applied mathematics (specialization e.g. in stochastics).

Previous knowledge of neuroscience is not necessary, although desirable.

Description

The seminar will consider a number of published articles in which advance data analysis methods are applied or developed for brain imaging data. Participants will present the articles, one article per participant. An introductory lecture or two will also be given for those not familiar with brain imaging. Here are the articles we will go through.

To get the credit points, you are supposed to

• participate in all the sessions of the seminar (one absence is OK, more than one if you have a very good reason)
• give a talk based on one of the articles.
• write, in the end, a short report on what you learned at the seminar (something like 10 lines per presentation). Deadline for the report: 15th December. To help you in writing the report, (some of) the presentation slides are available when you add the text presentations to the URL of this page.

Detailed timetable