N4ITK: Improved N3 bias correction

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1310-1320

  Tustison, Nicholas J ^a   Avants, Brian B ^a   Cook, Philip A ^a   Zheng, Yuanjie ^a   Egan, Alexander ^a   Yushkevich, Paul A ^a   Gee, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B spline approximation; Bias field; Inhomogeneity; N3

Indexed keywords

B-SPLINE; B-SPLINE APPROXIMATION; BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS FIELD; BIAS FIELD INHOMOGENEITY; EVALUATION STUDY; HIERARCHICAL OPTIMIZATION; HYPERPOLARIZED; IMAGE DATA; INSIGHT TOOLKIT; LEAST SQUARE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONUNIFORM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SIMULATED DATA; SOURCE CODES; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

SPLINES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953171016     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2046908     Document Type: Article

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