MASDOC Hot Topics
MASDOC: Hot Topics: Brain Imaging
Tuesday 5 October - 2-5pm
Speakers
Stuart Derbyshire - University of Birmingham - Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Understand Pain Processing in the Brain
Tom Nichols - University of Warwick - Random Field Theory for Brain Imaging: Foundations & Extensions
John Aston - University of Warwick - Functional Data Analysis in Brain Imaging
Papers to read
Lindquist, M. The Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data, Statistical Science, Vol. 23, No. 4, 439–464, 2008
Rice, J. A. and Silverman, B. W. Estimating the Mean and Covariance Structure Nonparametrically When the Data are Curves, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), Vol. 53, 233-243, 1991.
Worsley, K. Local Maxima and the Expected Euler Characteristic of Excursion Sets of χ2 , F and t Fields. Advances in Applied Probability, 26(1), 13–42, 1994.
(Gentler intro to above paper: Worsley, K. The geometry of random images. Chance, 9(1), 27–40. 1996)
