Extracting biomarkers of autism from MEG resting-state functional connectivity networks

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1166-1177

  Tsiaras, Vassilis ^a   Simos, Panagiotis G ^a   Rezaie, Roozbeh ^b   Sheth, Bhavin R ^c   Garyfallidis, Eleftherios ^d   Castillo, Eduardo M ^b   Papanicolaou, Andrew C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorders; Graph theory; Interdependence measures; MEG; Network analysis; Resting state functional connectivity

Indexed keywords

AS GRAPH; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY NETWORKS; FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; GENERALIZED SYNCHRONIZATION; INTERDEPENDENCE MEASURES; LEAVE-ONE-OUT; MEG; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK VISUALIZATION; PARTIAL DIRECTED COHERENCE; SIGNAL INTERACTIONS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; SENSORS; VISUALIZATION;

DISEASES;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82455177536     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: 18790534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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