BrainNet Viewer: A Network Visualization Tool for Human Brain Connectomics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Xia, Mingrui ^a   Wang, Jinhui ^a   He, Yong ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONNECTOME; IMAGE PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84879833765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068910     Document Type: Article

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