Table 2 Comparison of three centrality measures of all hub regions.

From: A Physarum Centrality Measure of the Human Brain Network

Hub regions

F–value

P–value

CD,node (Mean ± SD)

CB,node (Mean ± SD)

CP,node (Mean ± SD)

Post-hoc test

PreCG.L

18.335

<0.0001†

0.746 ± 0.027

1.148 ± 0.063

1.021 ± 0.047

CD,node < CB,node, CD,node < CP,node

PreCG.R

4.421

0.012†

0.977 ± 0.026

1.085 ± 0.061

1.172 ± 0.045

CD,node < CP,node

SFGdor.L

5.04

0.007†

0.88 ± 0.026

1.009 ± 0.057

1.075 ± 0.044

CD,node < CP,node

SFGdor.R

27.296

<0.0001†

1.308 ± 0.028

1.845 ± 0.073

1.733 ± 0.053

CD,node < CB,node, CD,node < CP,node

SFGmed.L

5.25

0.005†

0.869 ± 0.029

1.009 ± 0.061

1.083 ± 0.047

CD,node < CP,node

ACG.L

30.478

<0.0001†

0.625 ± 0.027

1.17 ± 0.069

1.057 ± 0.052

CD,node < CB,node, CD,node < CP,node

CAL.R

84.506

<0.0001†

1.242 ± 0.027

0.528 ± 0.048

0.885 ± 0.039

CD,node > CP,node > CB,node

MOG.L

0.653

0.521

1.297 ± 0.031

1.25 ± 0.07

1.337 ± 0.053

 

PoCG.L

32.036

<0.0001†

1.098 ± 0.029

1.701 ± 0.079

1.673 ± 0.061

CD,node < CB,node, CD,node < CP,node

PoCG.R

18.087

<0.0001†

1.238 ± 0.027

1.606 ± 0.071

1.653 ± 0.053

CD,node < CB,node, CD,node < CP,node

PCUN.L

8.408

<0.0001†

2.083 ± 0.024

1.776 ± 0.078

2.028 ± 0.055

CD,node > CB,node, CB,node < CP,node

PCUN.R

19.892

<0.0001†

2.074 ± 0.025

1.626 ± 0.068

1.842 ± 0.048

CD,node > CP,node > CB,node

MTG.L

48.873

<0.0001†

1.217 ± 0.029

0.544 ± 0.06

0.948 ± 0.051

CD,node > CP,node > CB,node

MTG.R

156.231

<0.0001†

1.113 ± 0.024

0.191 ± 0.045

0.622 ± 0.038

CD,node > CP,node > CB,node

  1. An ANOVA test was performed to determine significant differences among Z-transformed centrality measures (CD,node, CB,node, and CP,node) at all 78 network nodes. Values of P < 0.05 were accepted as significant with Bonferroni post-hoc correction. †FDR corrected P < 0.05.