An optimized wild bootstrap method for evaluation of measurement uncertainties of DTI-derived parameters in human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1144-1156

  Zhu, Tong ^a   Liu, Xiaoxu ^a   Connelly, Patrick R ^a   Zhong, Jianhui ^a,b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Measurement uncertainty; Monte Carlo simulation; Wild bootstrap

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROIMAGING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 40849130642     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.016     Document Type: Article

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