Proceedings of the Workshop on Brain Analysis using COnnectivity Networks - BACON 2016
This is an incremental effort to advance connectome analysis for neuroscience researchers.
The workshop addressed the need for robust computational methods to analyze brain connectivity networks, focusing on developing new techniques and evaluating existing approaches.
Understanding brain connectivity in a network-theoretic context has shown much promise in recent years. This type of analysis identifies brain organisational principles, bringing a new perspective to neuroscience. At the same time, large public databases of connectomic data are now available. However, connectome analysis is still an emerging field and there is a crucial need for robust computational methods to fully unravelits potential. This workshop provides a platform to discuss the development of new analytic techniques; methods for evaluating and validating commonly used approaches; as well as the effects of variations in pre-processing steps.