MIC as an Appropriate Method to Construct the Brain Functional Network

Table 5

A summary of the comparison of consistency. A: consistency in the important nodes; B: consistency in the importance of all nodes. The DC column indicated the importance of the node as defined by degree centrality (DC). The SPC column indicated the importance of the node as defined by the Shannon-Parry centrality (SPC). For the consistency comparison in four aspects, MIC had two times of the first ranking, one time of the second ranking, and one time of the third ranking. Overall, MIC had the best performance. Actually, if we pay attention to Tables 3 and 4, we will find that MIC, CF, and MI have a very similar conclusion.

Aspects	DC						SPC
	CF	PCF	MIC	MI	WCF	CH	CF	PCF	MIC	MI	WCF	CH
A	1	6	3	2	4	5	3	6	1	2	4	5
B	1	6	2	3	4	5	3	6	1	2	4	5