Reproducibility of Graph-Theoretic Brain Network Metrics: A Systematic Review

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 193-202

  Welton, Thomas ^a   Kent, Daniel A ^a   Auer, Dorothee P ^a   Dineen, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

connectome; graph theory; network; reliability; reproducibility; systematic review; test retest

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GRAPH THEORETIC BRAIN NETWORK METRIC; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WEB OF SCIENCE; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84938947014     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2014.0313     Document Type: Review

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