Fig. 8

The mean (raw) distances and normalized distances (normalized by multiplying the average number of fibers between brain regions across the entire brain) measured from the center (\(\bar{d}\)) of the embedding to every point after various removal schemes. Random removal was repeated 20,000 times, and the average is shown. For raw distances, overall removing nodes that have the lowest clustering coefficient has the smallest impact, while removing nodes with the highest strength has the largest. However, comparing the normalized distances reveals that removing highly embedded nodes results in the largest normalized distance, while random removal has the smallest impact