Tejaswini Kavallappa1, Steven Roys2,
Anindya Roy3, Joel Greenspan2, Rao Gullapalli2,
Alan McMillan2
1Dept. of Nuclear Medicine
& Diagnostic Radiology, Univeristy of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD, United States; 2University of Maryland School of
Medicine; 3University of Maryland Baltimore County
The reliability of functional and effective connectivity (using structural equation modeling [SEM]) was examined. Reliability assessment was performed on four datasets that were subject to various types of physiological and mean brain signal filtering. Path coefficients in effective connectivity demonstrated a higher degree of variability compared to correlation coefficients in functional connectivity, regardless of filtering method used. The high variability from test-retest results from SEM analysis suggests caution when interpreting results from such analysis.
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