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Purpose: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data acquired through resting-state studies have been used to obtain information about the spontaneous activations inside the brain. One of the approaches for analysis and interpretation…
Functional Magnetic Resonance Images acquired during resting-state provide information about the functional organization of the brain through measuring correlations between brain areas. Independent components analysis is the reference…
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Brain parcellations play a ubiquitous role in the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) datasets. Over 100 years of research has been conducted in pursuit of an ideal brain parcellation. Different methods have been developed and…
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Brain atlases are a ubiquitous tool used for analyzing and interpreting brain imaging datasets. Traditionally, brain atlases divided the brain into regions separated by anatomical landmarks. In the last decade, several attempts have been…
An essential premise for neuroscience brain network analysis is the successful segmentation of the cerebral cortex into functionally homogeneous regions. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), capturing the…
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