Brain Connectomics

Studies the interaction of brain functional regions at systems level

Highlights

  • Studies connection topology of different brain functional regions
  • Understand brain interaction dynamics by various network measures
  • Systems-level insight into the brain, in contrast to traditional ROI based methods
  • Allows detection of pathologies which are illusive to previous methods
  • Facilitates mapping of brain functions

Brain Network

Fig. 1. The brain network.

References

"Human Brain Connectomics: Networks, Techniques, and Applications," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 27(4), 131-134, July 2010. [Pew-Thian Yap, Guorong Wu, Dinggang Shen]