Proportional thresholding in resting-state fMRI functional connectivity networks and consequences for patient-control connectome studies: Issues and recommendations

NeuroImage

Volumn 152, Issue , 2017, Pages 437-449

  van den Heuvel, Martijn P ^a   de Lange, Siemon C ^a   Zalesky, Andrew ^b   Seguin, Caio ^b   Yeo, B T Thomas ^c   Schmidt, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b The University of Melbourne   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAPH THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SCHIZOPHRENIA; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONNECTOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 85015376574     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.02.005     Document Type: Article

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