Similarity-based extraction of individual networks from gray matter MRI scans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1530-1541

  Tijms, Betty M ^a   Seris, Peggy ^a   Willshaw, David J ^a   Lawrie, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

graph theory; gray matter; individual networks; magnetic resonance imaging; morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 84862839697     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr221     Document Type: Article

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