Identifying population differences in whole-brain structural networks: A machine learning approach

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 910-919

  Robinson, Emma C ^a   Hammers, Alexander ^b,c   Ericsson, Anders ^a   Edwards, A David ^a   Rueckert, Daniel ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL SCIENCES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CERMEP IMAGERIE DU VIVANT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249100186     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.019     Document Type: Article

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