Evaluation of performance metrics for bias field correction in MR brain images

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1271-1279

  Zin, Yan Chua ^a   Zheng, Weili ^a   Chee, Michael W L ^b   Zagorodnov, Vitali ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coefficient of joint variation; Coefficient of variation; Intensity nonuniformity correction; Performance metrics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; GRAY MATTER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VALIDITY; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 66749122462     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21768     Document Type: Article

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