Consistency of regions of interest as nodes of fMRI functional brain networks

O Korhonen, H Saarimäki, E Glerean, M Sams… - Network …, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
The functional network approach, where fMRI BOLD time series are mapped to networks
depicting functional relationships between brain areas, has opened new insights into the …

Defining nodes in complex brain networks

ML Stanley, MN Moussa, BM Paolini… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Network science holds great promise for expanding our understanding of the human brain in
health, disease, development, and aging. Network analyses are quickly becoming the …

[HTML][HTML] Data and model considerations for estimating time-varying functional connectivity in fMRI

C Ahrends, A Stevner, U Pervaiz, ML Kringelbach… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Functional connectivity (FC) in the brain has been shown to exhibit subtle but reliable
modulations within a session. One way of estimating time-varying FC is by using state-based …

The mean–variance relationship reveals two possible strategies for dynamic brain connectivity analysis in fMRI

WH Thompson, P Fransson - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
When studying brain connectivity using fMRI, signal intensity time-series are typically
correlated with each other in time to compute estimates of the degree of interaction between …

Evaluation and calibration of functional network modeling methods based on known anatomical connections

DA Dawson, K Cha, LB Lewis, JD Mendola, A Shmuel - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent studies have identified large scale brain networks based on the spatio-temporal
structure of spontaneous fluctuations in resting-state fMRI data. It is expected that functional …

Dynamic expression of brain functional systems disclosed by fine-scale analysis of edge time series

O Sporns, J Faskowitz, AS Teixeira, SA Cutts… - Network …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Functional connectivity (FC) describes the statistical dependence between neuronal
populations or brain regions in resting-state fMRI studies and is commonly estimated as the …

Effects of spatial smoothing on functional brain networks

T Alakörkkö, H Saarimäki, E Glerean… - European Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Graph‐theoretical methods have rapidly become a standard tool in studies of the structure
and function of the human brain. Whereas the structural connectome can be fairly …

Quantifying temporal correlations: A test–retest evaluation of functional connectivity in resting-state fMRI

M Fiecas, H Ombao, D Van Lunen, R Baumgartner… - NeuroImage, 2013 - Elsevier
There have been many interpretations of functional connectivity and proposed measures of
temporal correlations between BOLD signals across different brain areas. These …

The impact of hemodynamic variability and signal mixing on the identifiability of effective connectivity structures in BOLD fMRI

NZ Bielczyk, A Llera, JK Buitelaar… - Brain and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Multiple computational studies have demonstrated that essentially all current
analytical approaches to determine effective connectivity perform poorly when applied to …

Exploring the brain network: a review on resting-state fMRI functional connectivity

MP Van Den Heuvel, HEH Pol - European neuropsychopharmacology, 2010 - Elsevier
Our brain is a network. It consists of spatially distributed, but functionally linked regions that
continuously share information with each other. Interestingly, recent advances in the …