Mode-based morphometry (MBM)

[TrangCMonash]

Title

Mode-based morphometry (MBM)

Short description and the goals for the OHBM BrainHack

Classical approaches to studying neuroanatomy rely on statistical inferences at individual points (voxels or vertices), clusters of points, or a priori regions-of-interest (ROIs) and thus, they are restricted to a single spatial resolution scale. We develop an approach, called mode-based morphometry (MBM), that can be used to describe any empirical map of anatomical variations in terms of the fundamental, resonant modes––eigenmodes––of brain anatomy. This approach naturally yields a multiscale characterization of the empirical map, affording new opportunities for investigating the spatial frequency content of neuroanatomical variability.

We have developed a toolbox for this approach in Matlab. Depending on the expertise of participants, our goals for BrainHack are to make the toolbox more user-friendly, add more features, and translate it to Python.

Link to the Project

https://github.com/NSBLab/MBM

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Project lead

Name: Trang Cao
GitHub: https://github.com/NSBLab
Discord: trangcao.

Main Hub

Montreal

Other Hub covered by the leaders

• Montreal
• Asia / Pacific
• Europe / Middle East / Africa
• Americas

Skills

Coding skills
They will be tasks for different skills ranging from just starting coding on Matlab, wanting to try GUI on Matlab, to Premier League. Pythoneers are also welcomed.

Non-coding skills
It is not all about coding! Are you someone with a good flair for good visualization? Someone with more experience who can make a good user interface? Someone who knows how to develop good, tidy and clear documentation?

Recommended tutorials for new contributors

• Set up a brainhack friendly computing environment
• A introduction to Bash
• Python: Writing a script
• Python: Data analysis with Python
• Python: Visualisation
• Machine learning basics
• BIDS
• Machine learning for neuroimaging
• VCS: Using Git and Github
• VCS: Data management with Datalad
• Virtualization
• High Performance Computing: Oracle cloud resource

Good first issues

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Twitter summary

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Short name for the Discord chat channel (~15 chars)

MBM

Please read and follow the OHBM Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow the OHBM Code of Conduct during the hackathon

[anibalsolon]

@TrangCMonash can you provide the content and/or figure for this project to be added to Brainhack Proceeding 2023 by 15th May? Also, please remember to fill out your team member's details using this form: https://forms.gle/Ku3AVHcXvpUqVVkV7 . Cheers