The connectome viewer toolkit: An open source framework to manage, analyze, and visualize connectomes

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gerhard, Stephan ^a   Daducci, Alessandro ^a   Lemkaddem, Alia ^a   Meuli, Reto ^b   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a   Hagmann, Patric ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectome; Connectomics; Data management; Multi modal data; Network analysis; Neuroimaging; Python; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONNECTOME; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

EID: 84993995154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00003     Document Type: Article

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