Reproducibility of graph metrics of human brain structural networks

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Duda, Jeffrey T ^a   Cook, Philip A ^a   Gee, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Connectivity; Graph; Network; Reproducibility; Structure; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FIBER TRACKING ALGORITHM; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAPH METRICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84900549208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2014.00046     Document Type: Article

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