Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop
Satellite Meeting of OHBM 2026 Bordeaux, FRANCE
June 12-13, 2026 

Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop 2026

Date: PM Sunday June 22 - AM Monday June 23 

Place: Joint event with OHBM BrainHack

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. 

Program: The workshop's featured presentation is the Keith Worsley Lecture given by Sir. John Aston, Kt FRS of University of Cambridge.  Sir. Aston was a student of Keith's and has made fundamental contributions to functional data analysis and change point methods.  We'll have additional key notes 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. (Final programme comming soon!)

Registration: Registration will be via the Hackathon website (coming soon!). 

Organizers

Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, The University of Queensland & QIMR Berghofer

Michele Guindani, UCLA, USA

Jian Kang, University of Michigan, USA

Moo Kyung Chung, University of Winsconsin-Madison, USA

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)

• Brisbane, June 22-23, 2025, Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop (OHBM satellite)