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This lesson is a general overview of overarching concepts in neuroinformatics research, with a particular focus on clinical approaches to defining, measuring, studying, diagnosing, and treating various brain disorders. Also described are the complex, multi-level nature of brain disorders and the data associated with them, from genes and individual cells up to cortical microcircuits and whole-brain network dynamics. Given the heterogeneity of brain disorders and their underlying mechanisms, this lesson lays out a case for multiscale neuroscience data integration.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:09:33
Speaker: : Sean Hill

In this tutorial on simulating whole-brain activity using Python, participants can follow along using corresponding code and repositories, learning the basics of neural oscillatory dynamics, evoked responses and EEG signals, ultimately leading to the design of a network model of whole-brain anatomical connectivity. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:16:10
Speaker: : John Griffiths

This lesson breaks down the principles of Bayesian inference and how it relates to cognitive processes and functions like learning and perception. It is then explained how cognitive models can be built using Bayesian statistics in order to investigate how our brains interface with their environment. 

This lesson corresponds to slides 1-64 in the PDF below. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:28:14

Whereas the previous two lessons described the biophysical and signalling properties of individual neurons, this lesson describes properties of those units when part of larger networks. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 6:00
Speaker: : Marcus Ghosh

This lesson goes over some examples of how machine learners and computational neuroscientists go about designing and building neural network models inspired by biological brain systems. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 12:52
Speaker: : Dan Goodman

This lecture and tutorial focuses on measuring human functional brain networks, as well as how to account for inherent variability within those networks. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 50:44
Speaker: : Caterina Gratton

This lecture presents an overview of functional brain parcellations, as well as a set of tutorials on bootstrap agregation of stable clusters (BASC) for fMRI brain parcellation.

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 50:28
Speaker: : Pierre Bellec
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Neuronify is an educational tool meant to create intuition for how neurons and neural networks behave. You can use it to combine neurons with different connections, just like the ones we have in our brain, and explore how changes on single cells lead to behavioral changes in important networks. Neuronify is based on an integrate-and-fire model of neurons. This is one of the simplest models of neurons that exist. It focuses on the spike timing of a neuron and ignores the details of the action potential dynamics. These neurons are modeled as simple RC circuits. When the membrane potential is above a certain threshold, a spike is generated and the voltage is reset to its resting potential. This spike then signals other neurons through its synapses.

Neuronify aims to provide a low entry point to simulation-based neuroscience.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 01:25
Speaker: : Neuronify

This lecture covers the linking neuronal activity to behavior using AI-based online detection. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 30:39

This lesson gives an in-depth introduction of ethics in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of its impact on humans and public interest. As the healthcare sector becomes increasingly affected by the implementation of ever stronger AI algorithms, this lecture covers key interests which must be protected going forward, including privacy, consent, human autonomy, inclusiveness, and equity. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:22:06
Speaker: : Daniel Buchman

This lesson describes a definitional framework for fairness and health equity in the age of the algorithm. While acknowledging the impressive capability of machine learning to positively affect health equity, this talk outlines potential (and actual) pitfalls which come with such powerful tools, ultimately making the case for collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transparent science as a way to operationalize fairness in health equity. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:06:35
Speaker: : Laura Sikstrom

In this final lecture of the INCF Short Course: Introduction to Neuroinformatics, you will hear about new advances in the application of machine learning methods to clinical neuroscience data. In particular, this talk discusses the performance of SynthSeg, an image segmentation tool for automated analysis of highly heterogeneous brain MRI clinical scans.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:32:01

Introduction of the Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course - Day 01.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 35:24
Speaker: : Elena Trunz

Optimization for machine learning - Day 02 lecture of the Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 34:52
Speaker: : Moritz Wolter

Linear Algebra for Machine Learning - Day 03 lecture of the Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 57.45
Speaker: : Moritz Wolter

Support Vector Machines -  Day 06 lecture of the  Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 53.39
Speaker: : Elena Trunz

Decision Trees and Random Forests -  Day 07 lecture of the  Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 1:15:39
Speaker: : Elena Trunz

Clustering and Density Estimation -  Day 08 lecture of the  Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 59:35
Speaker: : Elena Trunz

Dimensionality Reduction -  Day 09 lecture of the  Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 51:02
Speaker: : Elena Trunz

Introduction to Neural Networks -  Day 10 lecture of the  Foundations of Machine Learning in Python course.

High-Performance Computing and Analytics Lab, University of Bonn

Difficulty level: Advanced
Duration: 54:12
Speaker: : Moritz Wolter