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Hindawi Publishing Corporation BioMed Research International Article ID 825136 Research Article MIC as an Appropriate Method to Construct the Brain Functional Network Ziqing Zhang,1,2 Shu Sun,3 Ming Yi,1 Xia Wu,4,5 and Yiming Ding1 1 Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China 4 College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China 5 State Key Laboratories of Transducer Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xia Wu; wuxia@ and Yiming Ding; ding@ Received 29 July 2014; Revised 12 October 2014; Accepted 14 October 2014 Academic Editor: Yoshiki Kaneoke Copyright 漏 Ziqing Zhang et al. his is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Using an efective method to measure the brain functional connectivity is an important step to study the brain functional network. he main methods for constructing an undirected brain functional network include correlation coeicient (CF), partial correlation coeicient (PCF), mutual information (MI), wavelet correlation coeicient (WCF), and coherence (CH). In this paper we demonstrate that the maximal information coeicient (MIC) proposed by Reshef et al. is relevant to constructing a brain functional network because it performs best in the comprehe