Thalamic nuclei are increasingly important not only in our understanding of cognition but also in a number of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases like multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, where their increasing involvement is being delineated.
Current state-of-the-art methods for both visualization and segmentation of thalamic nuclei are still lagging behind. The purpose of this 3-day e-symposium is to bring together a wide range of researchers together to tackle this challenging and critical problem of accurate and fast segmentation of thalamic nuclei as well as validation and application of these methods in basic neuroscience and clinical applications. Each day will be focused on a specific theme area, with keynotes, smaller talks, and round table discussions.
We hope fruitful collaborations and working groups focusing on methods, anatomy, applications will emerge organically out of this meeting space and to put out position papers on the topics.