Preconference: Educational Workshop

As part of the European Meeting on Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (EU-MIND) second edition, we will be working towards convening a pre-conference workshop entitled “Getting Started with Neuroimaging Analysis”. The workshop we be held on Tuesday, September 22 2026 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, before the beginning of the conference.

The main goal of this workshop is to give new and early-career researchers an entry point to neuroimaging methods and research that will make this field more accessible and give them research-ready skills to not only process neuroimaging data, but also accurately interpret neuroimaging findings in the greater context of aging and dementia research topics.

This workshop will provide hands-on training on the basics of neuroimaging to 30-40 attendees. The target audience is trainees and early-career researchers who are interested in neuroimaging research but have not had sufficient opportunity for formal training working with neuroimaging data. However, any attendees interested in learning more about neuroimaging analysis and how to use it in their research are welcome to apply.

The workshop will cover basic concepts in neuroimaging data formats, coordinate systems, data visualization and image processing software. Introductory webinars are available on-demand and recommended for viewing before attending the workshop. There are interactive hands-on lessons that cover structural, functional, and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET). The format consists of a general introduction, followed by brief (~5 min) introductions on each of the tutorial lessons. Attendees will then have three one-hour, self-paced working sessions, with organizers moving around the classroom to provide assistance.

The expected learning outcomes from this work are for attendees to:

• Evaluate the different elements of imaging data structure and their respective functions
• Employ common neuroimaging processing methods on various MRI and PET data used in clinical aging and dementia research.
• Review results from neuroimaging processing steps and pipelines to ensure data quality and to interpret results in a research context.

 

Organizers/instructors:

• David Cash, University College London Institute of Neurology
  Expert on cross-sectional and longitudinal structural MRI analysis in dementia and application to clinical trials
• Luigi Lorenzini,VUMC Amsterdam
  Expert on imaging processing and analysis using fMRI and advanced modalities, issues in quality control and multi-site studies.
• María Cabello, University of Barcelona and University of Lausanne
  Expert on multimodal MRI and connectivity analyses on healthy population and neurodegenerative diseases. 

 

Localization:

Facultat de Medicina – University of Barcelona
Carrer de Casanova, 143
08036 Barcelona
Spain