Constructing fMRI connectivity networks: A whole brain functional parcellation method for node definition

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 228, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-99

  Maggioni, Eleonora ^a,b   Tana, Maria Gabriella ^a,c   Arrigoni, Filippo ^b   Zucca, Claudio ^b   Bianchi, Anna Maria ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain connectivity; FMRI; FMRI time series; Functional clustering; Whole brain parcellation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GRANGER CAUSALITY ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; TONONI CLUSTER INDEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHOLE BRAIN PARCELLATION; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATASETS AS TOPIC; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; OXYGEN;

EID: 84897942810     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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