Method to correct intensity inhomogeneity in MR images for atherosclerosis characterization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 539-552

  Salvado, Olivier ^b   Hillenbrand, Claudia ^c,d   Zhang, Shaoxiang ^c,e   Wilson, David L ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Blood vessels; Entropy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Splines

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTERIZED TISSUE CLASSIFICATION; LINEAR FILTERING METHOD (LINF);

DISEASES; ENTROPY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646420335     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.871418     Document Type: Article

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