CereVA - Visual Analysis of Functional Brain Connectivity

Michael de Ridder, Karsten Klein, Jinman Kim

2015

Abstract

We present CereVA, a web-based interface for the visual analysis of brain activity data. CereVA combines 2D and 3D visualizations and allows the user to interactively explore and compare brain activity data sets. The web-based interface combines several linked graphical representations of the network data, allowing for tight integration of different visualizations. The data is presented in the anatomical context within a 3D volume rendering, by node-link visualizations of connectivity networks, and by a matrix view of the data. In addition, our approach provides graph-theoretical analysis of the connectivity networks. Our solution supports several analysis tasks, including the comparison of connectivity networks, the analysis of correlation patterns, and the aggregation of networks, e.g. over a population.

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de Ridder M., Klein K. and Kim J. (2015). CereVA - Visual Analysis of Functional Brain Connectivity . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-088-8, pages 131-138. DOI: 10.5220/0005305901310138


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@conference{ivapp15,
author={Michael de Ridder and Karsten Klein and Jinman Kim},
title={CereVA - Visual Analysis of Functional Brain Connectivity},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={131-138},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005305901310138},
isbn={978-989-758-088-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - CereVA - Visual Analysis of Functional Brain Connectivity
SN - 978-989-758-088-8
AU - de Ridder M.
AU - Klein K.
AU - Kim J.
PY - 2015
SP - 131
EP - 138
DO - 10.5220/0005305901310138