Fast computation of voxel-level brain connectivity maps from resting-state functional MRI using l1-norm as approximation of Pearson's temporal correlation: Proof-of-concept and example vector hardware implementation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1212-1217

  Minati, Ludovico ^a,b   Zacà, Domenico ^b   D'Incerti, Ludovico ^a   Jovicich, Jorge ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain networks; Connectome; Correlation coefficient; Parallel processing; Resting state functional MRI (rs fMRI); Vector hardware co processor

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS;

BRAIN NETWORKS; CO-PROCESSORS; CONNECTOME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL MRI; PARALLEL PROCESSING;

HARDWARE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONNECTOME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE NETWORK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; DEVICES; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REST; TIME;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONNECTOME; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; REST; TIME;

EID: 84906043690     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2014.06.012     Document Type: Article

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