The three-day workshop on MRI and fMRI data analysis via Freesurfer software, August 2019

The three-day workshop on MRI and fMRI data analysis via Freesurfer was held on 17-19 August 2019 at NBML. The workshop was taught by Dr. Reza Raji Mohreh, Dr. Elahe Yargholi, Hossein Rafipour, and Neda Afzalian. The titles were as follows:

• Introduction to the workshop
• A brief tutorial on Linux
• Structural MRI analysis and cortical surface reconstruction in Freesurfer
• Visualization of anatomical volumes and surfaces in Freesurfer
• Making flat patches and creating labels
• Basics of fMRI analysis
• Preprocessing of fMRI data in FsFast
• Functional-anatomical registration
• Single-subject analysis of fMRI data in FsFast
• Visualization of functional maps
• Group-level analysis of fMRI data in FsFast
• Region-of-interest analysis
• Transfer of structural and functional data between Freesurfer and Matlab
• Functional connectivity analysis
• Conclusion of the workshop