Table 3 Differences in the structural co-variance network based on the volume between patients with focal cortical dysplasia and healthy controls

Mean clustering coefficient

0.527

0.635

0.108

-0.105

0.100

0.036

Characteristic path length

1.968

1.651

-0.317

-0.323

0.286

0.051

Global efficiency

0.545

0.648

0.102

-0.083

0.092

0.026

Local efficiency

2.699

3.801

1.102

-0.893

0.894

0.019

Small-worldness index

0.984

0.984

-0.001

-0.019

0.018

0.481

Transitivity

0.791

0.954

0.163

-0.144

0.135

0.026

Radius of graph

2.539

2.632

0.093

-1.034

1.117

0.479

Diameter of graph

4.059

4.386

0.327

-1.779

1.804

0.367

Assortative coefficient

-0.013

-0.014

-0.001

-0.012

0.010

0.424

Network measures

Patients with frontal lobe epilepsy (N = 16)

Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (N = 15)

Mean

Mean

Difference

CI lower

CI upper

p-value

Mean clustering coefficient

0.627

0.470

-0.157

-0.173

0.171

0.081

Characteristic path length

1.656

2.175

0.518

-0.522

0.563

0.067

Global efficiency

0.646

0.520

-0.126

-0.136

0.141

0.094

Local efficiency

3.795

2.416

-1.379

-1.434

1.479

0.084

Small-worldness index

0.982

0.957

-0.025

-0.040

0.035

0.160

Transitivity

0.941

0.714

-0.227

-0.254

0.226

0.073

Radius of graph

2.343

3.128

0.784

-1.072

1.173

0.149

Diameter of graph

3.515

4.823

1.307

-2.028

2.150

0.192

Assortative coefficient

-0.015

-0.037

-0.022

-0.023

0.018

0.052