Table 1. Comparison between different connectivity toolboxes.

Toolbox	Pre- Process.	Anat. Conn. MRI	Struct. Conn. MRI	Funct. Conn. MRI	Effect. Conn. MRI	Funct. Conn. PET	Funct. Conn. EEG	Imaging/ Physio.	Graph Analy.	Conn. Visual	Group Stats	References
PANDA	X		X					X	X			Cui et al., 2013
FCT				X				X			X	Zhou, Thompson & Siegle, 2009
DPARSF/ REST/ REST-GCA	X			X				X		X	X	Chao-Gan & Yu-Feng, 2010; Song et al., 2011; Zang et al., 2012
Conn	X			X					X		X	Whitfield-Gabrieli & Nieto-Castanon, 2012
mFNC	X			X	X		X					Lei et al., 2011a; Lei et al., 2011b
eConnectome	X				X		X	X		X		He et al., 2011
GCCA	X				X		X		X	X		Seth, 2010
CMTK	X		X	X			X	X	X	X	X	Gerhard et al., 2011
GAT		X	X	X					X	X	X	Hadi Hosseini, Hoeft & Kesler, 2012
UMCD		X	X	X					X	X	X	Brown et al., 2012
BNV		X	X	X	X					X		Xia, Wang & He, 2013
BrainCat	X		X	X						X		Marques et al., 2013
CVU			X	X					X	X		LaPlante et al., 2014
TVB data pipeline	X		X	X			X		X	X		Schirner et al., 2015
MIBCA	X	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	Ribeiro et al., 2015 (This article)

Notes.

Pre-Process.

Pre-processing of raw data

Anat. Conn. MRI

Anatomical connectivity derived from T1-weighted MRI data

Struct. Conn. MRI

Structural connectivity derived from diffusion MRI data

Funct. Conn. MRI

Functional connectivity derived from blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) (functional MRI) data

Effect. Conn. MRI

Effective connectivity derived from BOLD (functional MRI) data

Funct. Conn. PET

Functional/Metabolic connectivity derived from PET data

Funct. Conn. EEG

Functional/Effective connectivity derived from EEG, ECoG and/or MEG data

Physio.

Physiological (EEG)

Graph Analy.

Graph analysis

Conn. Visual.

Connectivity visualization tools

Group Stats

Statistical analysis/Classification of groups of subjects

See text for details.