Low entropy maps as patterns of the pathological alteration specificity of brain regions: A meta-analysis dataset.
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SUBMITTER: Liloia D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258253 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
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Low entropy maps as patterns of the pathological alteration specificity of brain regions: A meta-analysis dataset.
Liloia Donato D Cauda Franco F Nani Andrea A Manuello Jordi J Duca Sergio S Fox Peter T PT Costa Tommaso T
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The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "The alteration landscape of the cerebral cortex" (Cauda et al., 2018). Here, we applied a metric called alteration negentropy (A-negentropy) on a large human neuroimaging dataset, in order to denote the "low structural alteration variety" of the altered brain areas. Furthermore, we reported the overview of the selection strategy, as well as the description and distribution of the selected studies from the voxel-base ...[more]
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