A hierarchical method for whole-brain connectivity-based parcellation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5000-5025

  Moreno Dominguez, David ^a   Anwander, Alfred ^a   Knösche, Thomas R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Connectome; Dendrogram; Diffusion MRI; Hierarchical clustering; Tractography; Whole brain parcellation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BRAIN CONNECTIVITY BASED PARCELLATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; DATASETS AS TOPIC; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84927570971     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22528     Document Type: Article

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