Accurate age classification of 6 and 12 month-old infants based on resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging data.
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SUBMITTER: Pruett JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385423 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Accurate age classification of 6 and 12 month-old infants based on resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging data.
Pruett John R JR Kandala Sridhar S Hoertel Sarah S Snyder Abraham Z AZ Elison Jed T JT Nishino Tomoyuki T Feczko Eric E Dosenbach Nico U F NU Nardos Binyam B Power Jonathan D JD Adeyemo Babatunde B Botteron Kelly N KN McKinstry Robert C RC Evans Alan C AC Hazlett Heather C HC Dager Stephen R SR Paterson Sarah S Schultz Robert T RT Collins D Louis DL Fonov Vladimir S VS Styner Martin M Gerig Guido G Das Samir S Kostopoulos Penelope P Constantino John N JN Estes Annette M AM Petersen Steven E SE Schlaggar Bradley L BL Piven Joseph J
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 20150203
Human large-scale functional brain networks are hypothesized to undergo significant changes over development. Little is known about these functional architectural changes, particularly during the second half of the first year of life. We used multivariate pattern classification of resting-state functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fcMRI) data obtained in an on-going, multi-site, longitudinal study of brain and behavioral development to explore whether fcMRI data contained informat ...[more]
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