Workshops
AI Tools for Research from Ideas to Publication
Led by Prof Eric Vanman (University of Queensland)
The Friday morning workshop will focus on the many AI tools that are now available for researchers in social and affective neuroscience, including NotebookLM, Napkin, Consensus, Research Rabbit, Perplexity, and, of course, ChatGPT. This workshop will involve hands-on demonstrations of these and other cutting-edge AI tools that can assist throughout your research process—from generating initial ideas to finalising your work for publication or presentation. Bring your laptop!
Neurodesk: Reproducible Neuroimaging for Everyone
Led by Steffen Bollmann and Michèle Masson-Trottier (Queensland Digital Health Centre, The University of Queensland; School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Queensland)
Neuroimaging data analysis requires a diverse collection of bespoke command-line and graphical tools. Installing and maintaining a neuroimaging software setup is challenging and often results in un-reproducible environments. We developed NeuroDesk, a platform built on software container technology for processing and analysing neuroimaging data with the aim of lowering the barrier of using various neuroimaging software in a reproducible environment.
We developed a modular and open analysis environment consisting of a continuous integration system on Github to automatically build neuroimaging software containers based on community input. We also developed a toolset around software containers to make them easy to use. We provide all tools within a lightweight Linux desktop container accessible via a browser interface that runs on any operating system supporting Docker.
Our open-source project (https://www.neurodesk.org) enables researchers and clinicians to use various neuroimaging software on any operating system. We developed a scalable and interoperable way of running scientific tools on any compute platform accessible to researchers and clinicians. The benefits of this setup are an easy-to-use and reproducible environment for neuroimaging data analysis. NeuroDesk enables to run a fully reproducible environment on cloud, on windows/linux/mac or on a high-performance computing system and seamlessly transition between different hardware setups.
This interactive workshop on Friday afternoon will introduce participants to Neurodesk and guide them through setting it up. The workshop will cover how to get data into the Neurodesk environment, processing with common neuroimaging software packages, and sharing data and code with others. Please bring a computer with you for the workshop to participate in the interactive demo 😊