Three-dimensional mean-shift edge bundling for the visualization of functional connectivity in the brain

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 471-480

  Bottger, Joachim ^a   Schafer, Alexander ^a   Lohmann, Gabriele ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a   Margulies, Daniel S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

information visualization; Visualization applications; visualization techniques and methodologies

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

BRAIN ACTIVITY; CONNECTIVITY PATTERN; CORTICAL REGIONS; EDGE BUNDLING; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84897429754     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.114     Document Type: Article

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