Summary
2011 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2011
Session Number:A3L-B
Session:
Number:A3L-B4
Comparison of Brain Functional Networks and Internet Topologies by Complex Network Measures
Kenji Leibnitz, Tetsuya Shimokawa, Hiroaki Umehara, Tsutomu Murata,
pp.188-191
Publication Date:2011/9/4
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Network structures can be found in various kinds of biological and engineered systems as medium for communication among the respective types of network nodes. The field of complex networks has paved the way to a generalized theoretical formalization of network topologies and these techniques have also been applied to investigate the connectivity of functional brain networks. In this paper, we discuss the method for extracting brain functional networks from fMRI measurement data and how to obtain characteristic complex network measures. We also apply the same techniques to ISP network topologies and explain fundamental similarities and differences.