Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop
Satellite Meeting of OHBM 2025, Brisbane
June 22-23, 2025 

Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop 2025

Date: PM Sunday June 22 - AM Monday June 23 

Place: Joint event with OHBM BrainHack - 315 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane

Aim: The workshop will showcase various emerging methods in brain image modeling and analysis. This workshop combines lectures by leaders in neuroimaging statistics and opportunities to network. The workshop is meant to inform and educate students and researchers on emerging new methods. This satellite meeting will be held before the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting, as a joint event with the OHBM Hackathon. Both Neuroimaging Statistics and the Hackathon will be hosted at the Precinct, located in 315 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley. 

Program: The workshop will have a plenary talk, the Keith Worsley Lecture given by Stephen Strother of University of Toronto. There will be three keynote speakers (Christian Beckmann from Radboud University, Gang Chen from NIMH and Neda Jahanshad from the Universtity of South California) and oral sessions with invited speakers covering a range of topics including topological data analysis, computational developments, brain connectivity, functional imaging, structural imaging and imaging genetics.  A detailed program is available here.

Registration: Registration is via the Hackathon website. The registration fee of US$50 includes lunch, coffee/tea & Sun-Mon admission to the BrainHack; full Sat-Mon BrainHack admission with work Workshop registration for US$70. 

Organizers

Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, The University of Queensland & QIMR Berghofer (local organizer) 

Thomas Nichols, University of Oxford, UK

Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Jean-Baptiste Poline, McGill University, Canada

Anqi Qiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Contacts

For any issue related to the workshop, contact Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne (b.couvy-duchesne@imb.uq.edu.au) or one of the organizers. 

Acknowledgments

The workshop is co-organised with the OHBM Open Science SIG, and is generously supported by our sponsors, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology , the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Imaging and the Mental Health Research Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Previous satellite meetings

• Akita, May 1993, "BrainPET: The Quantification of Brain Function" (Brain satellite, Keith presents "Detecting and estimating the regions of activation in CBF activation studies in human brain")

• San Antonio, Dec 1995, "Human Brain Mapping and Modeling" (Peter Fox event, Keith presents "Searching Location and Scale for Activation in PET and fMRI")

• San Antonio, Dec 1996, "Methods for mapping and modeling the human brain" (Peter Fox event, Keith presents "An overview and some new developments in the statistical analysis of PET and fMRI")

• Montreal, June 13-14, 1998, "Workshop on Statistics of Brain Mapping" (OHBM satellite & CRM event)

• Montreal, Dec 10-11, 2000, "Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Brain Mapping" (CRM event)

• Raleigh, 2012-13, "SAMSI Summer Program on Neuroimaging Data Analysis" (SAMSI "Neuroimaging Data Analysis" event, 9-14 June 2013 in particular)

• Singapore, Jun 22-23, 2018, "Workshop on Nonstandard Brain Image Analysis" (OHBM satellite)

• Rome, Jun 14, 2019, "Statistics in Neuroimaging" (OHBM satellite) 

• Virtual, June 17-18, 2021, "Workshop on Nonstandard Brain Image Analysis" (OHBM satellite)

• Montreal, July 27, 2023, "Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop" (OHBM satellite)

• Seoul, June 20-21, 2024, “Neuroimaging Statistics” (OHBM satellite)