The geometry of correlation fields with an application to functional connectivity of the brain

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1021-1057

  Cao, Jin ^a   Worsley, Keith ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Euler characteristic; Image analysis; Random field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033265616     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1029962864     Document Type: Article

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