Functional Brain Networks: Does the Choice of Dependency Estimator and Binarization Method Matter?

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jalili, Mahdi ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 84978745590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep29780     Document Type: Article

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