Yi-Ping Chao1,2, Chun-Yi Lo3,
Ching-Po Lin4
1School of Applied
Information Sciences, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan; 2Department
of Medical Imaging, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan;
3Department of Medical Imaging & Radiological Sciences,
National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4Institute of
Neuroscience, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
In this study, we hypothesized that voxels belonging to the same partition of thalamus should be provided with the similar temporal cross-correlation values to other voxels. Therefore, we transferred the cross-correlation matrix derived from resting-state fMRI analysis to a meta-data for the data mining software to separate this data based on the k-median clusting algorithm. Finally, we presented the segmentations of thalamus according to the clustered results. From our results, resting-state fMRI could provide not only the functional connectivity network between cortical and subcortical brain regions, but also local characteristic within thalamus.
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