Structural analysis of fMRI data revisited: Improving the sensitivity and reliability of fMRI group studies

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1256-1269

  Thirion, Bertrand ^a   Pinel, Philippe ^b   Tucholka, Alan ^b   Roche, Alexis ^b   Ciuciu, Philippe ^b   Mangin, Jean François ^b   Poline, Jean Baptiste ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

Author keywords

Belief propagation (BP); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Group analysis; Group comparison; Replicator dynamics (RD); Spatial normalization; Structural methods; Watershed

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ANALYSIS;

BELIEF PROPAGATION (BP); FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI); GROUP ANALYSIS; GROUP COMPARISON; REPLICATOR DYNAMICS (RD); SPATIAL NORMALIZATION; STRUCTURAL METHODS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34548532660     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.903226     Document Type: Article

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