New variants of a method of MRI scale standardization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 143-150

  Nyúl, László G ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE;

IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE INTENSITIES; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; SCANNER DEPENDENT VARIATIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LETTER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 0033624997     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.836373     Document Type: Article

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