Symposium Images and Networks of the Brain 2018

1 March 2018

The 2018 Symposium on Images and Networks of the Brain will take place from 24-25 April 2018 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

The human brain is a complex, hierarchically structured and interconnected system. Despite intense research activities and advancements, it is still considered one of the least understood organs in the human body.

Recent developments and ongoing progress in neuroimaging in general and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in particular offer, however, new insights into structure and function of the brain, the mutual interplay of and the connectivity between different brain regions, and even metabolic processes underlying brain activity – i.e. information that play a fundamental role in every field of application from laboratory neuroscience to clinical routine.

Successful translation of the image information into accepted knowledge and even- tually improved clinical outcome requires close collaboration of researchers of different disciplines – e.g. physicists developing MR sequences, computer scientists and mathematicians extracting and representing the image information, and biologists, neuro-scientists and physicians for biomedical interpretation and clinical application of the extracted information.

ImNeB especially aims to promote young scientists by fostering intense discussions of ideas between the young scientists and experts of the different disciplines. It therefore features only short presentations (15 min), followed by the same amount of time for discussion. To further account for the increasing importance of Deep Learning (DL) in the addressed disciplines, the first FMTHH DL hackathon for UKE and TUHH members takes place, organized by the UKE, the Hamburg University of Tech- nology (TUHH) and the Forschungszentrum Medizintechnik Hamburg (FMTHH).

See the symposium registration website for details, the preliminary program, and paper submssion instructions.