Dear list members, Aholab Signal Processing research group, from Bilbao, Spain, is hosting eNTERFACE’14, the 10th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (Bilbao, June 9th to July 9th 2014). eNTERFACE workshops gather in a single place a team of senior project leaders, researchers, and students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, each team being attached to a specific project. The following project may be of interest to you: Title: Quantification of the alteration in the resting state networks for measuring brain pathologies and diseases Leading team: I. Diez, A. Erramuzpe, S. Stramaglia1, and J.M. Cortes, from Biocruces Health Research Institute Abstract: Resting State Networks (RSNs) are the result from the coherence across brain regions in the high-amplitude ultra-slow (0.1 Hz) fluctuations in the Blood-Oxygen-Level-Dependent (BOLD) signal acquired with resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). The RSNs are universal, meaning that, beyond individual brain differences, they emerge at rest in all healthy subjects. This universal behavior in healthy brains has pushed forward the strategy for quantification of the RSNs alterations in brain pathological conditions to find for new neuroimaging markers for both mental and cognitive disorders. Indeed, alterations in the RSNs have been found in patients with deficit of consciousness after brain traumatic injury, in Alzheimer disease and schizophrenia. Based on these results, it is expected that RSNs alterations occur as well for other brain disorders and diseases. This is the main motivation of this project, given an input rs-fMRI data of a specific patient, to develop new and efficient methods capable to quantify the precise amount of alteration (respect to control) for each of the resting networks. If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in this project, please prepare a short CV in electronic format along with a list of skills you can offer to the team and fill in the application form available on the official website. eNTERFACE’14 has no registration fee and lodging prices will be highly competitive. We will also offer about 5 grants covering accomodation expenses (more information will be given through the official website in due course). Important dates: Deadline for application: March 14th 2014 Notification of acceptance to participants: April 11th 2014 Workshop: June 9th – July 4th 2014 Web: http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14 Contact: enterface14@aholab.ehu.es