Restoration of MRI data for intensity non-uniformities using local high order intensity statistics

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-48

  Hadjidemetriou, Stathis ^a   Studholme, Colin ^a   Mueller, Susanne ^a   Weiner, Michael ^a   Schuff, Norbert ^a  

^a VA UCSF   (United States)

Author keywords

Co occurrence statistics; High order image statistics; Image intensity restoration; MRI bias field correction; Non stationary Wiener filtering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COBALT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REPAIR; RESTORATION;

CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; HIGH ORDER IMAGE STATISTICS; IMAGE INTENSITY RESTORATION; MRI BIAS FIELD CORRECTION; NON-STATIONARY WIENER FILTERING;

STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57049120116     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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