fMRI Parcellation

"The objectives of this module are to: 1) Understand the basis of the signal used in functional magnetic resonance imaging. 2) Know the main steps of preprocessing fMRI data. 3) Know how functional connectivity is calculated, and how it is most commonly used. 4) Know the main brain parcellations and associated technical challenges ."

Information

The estimated time to complete this training module is 1.5h.

The prerequisites to take this module are:

the installation module.
the python data analysis module (recommended for Python familiarity).
the fmri connectivity module

Contact Desiree Lussier if you have questions on this module, or if you want to check that you completed successfully all the exercises.

Resources

The first portion of this module was presented by Pierre Bellec during Brainhack School 2020 and teh notebook was created by Desiree Lussier for this module.

The tutorial slides are available here.

The video presentation is available here:

Exercise

Watch the video presentation by Pierre Bellec and go over the slides.
Download the notebook created for this module found here
Run the notebook to view the parcellation for the atlas example.
Create new code blocks in your notebook and the example to retrive three other atlases using Nilearn datasets, the documentation for which you can find here, and view the atlases in your notebook.
Answer the discussion at the bottom of the notebook in the markdown block provided and save.
Follow up with Désirée Lussier to and validate you completed the exercise.
🎉 🎉 🎉 you completed this training module! 🎉 🎉 🎉

More resources

You can watch my talk on dynamic parcellation (in French) here. If you are curious about how the embeddings of different parcellations compare you can check out my OHBM 2021 poster here and check out Sebastian Urchs’ paper on the MIST atlas here