Structural simplexity of the brain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-126

  Pham, Tuan D ^a   Elfiqi, Heba Z ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^b,c   Wersching, Heike ^d   Baune, Bernhard T ^d   Berger, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Neurocenter at Schoen Klinik   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Entropy; Geostatistics; MRI; Simple interpretation; Structural complexity; White matter changes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ENTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 77950461616     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.01.029     Document Type: Article

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