Evaluation of the performance of information theory-based methods and cross-correlation to estimate the functional connectivity in cortical networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Garofalo, Matteo ^a   Nieus, Thierry ^a   Massobrio, Paolo ^b   Martinoia, Sergio ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN CORTEX; EMBRYO; ENTROPY; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; RATS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 68349131554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006482     Document Type: Article

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