[Nipy-devel] PBAIC contest, latest news

[Jonathan Taylor]

Hi Emanuele,

What do you need as far as code?

-- Jonathan

Emanuele Olivetti a écrit :
> Hi,
> Pittsburgh Brain Activity Interpretation Competition (2007) is about to
> start (tomorrow, AFAIK) after some delays due to technical reasons. As
> you know I'm enforcing Python as best language to deal with fMRI data :)
> I think datasets will be available in one week.
>
> http://www.ebc.pitt.edu/PBAIC.html
>
> The latest news I have are:
> - they (Pittsburgh) are pushing matlab because of the large user base,
> through
> this toolbox: http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/mvpa/
> done by the EBC Princeton group (one of the strongest teams last year)
> - the data formats available will be exactly same as last year, so:
>     - anz and brainvoyager for functional data
>     - brainvoyager and afni for surface data
>     - anz, bv and afni for structural data
> - I haven't new information about their availability to host and
> promote code for other languages. I believe Pittsburgh will have a proper
> space in short time. I'll keep you updated.
>
> I'm actively working on some machine learning tools to approach
> functional data
> (prediction, selection etc.) and hope to have something decent in future.
>
> If someone is interested in writing some code to make life easier to
> python competitors, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Emanuele
>
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