An anisotropic images segmentation and bias correction method |
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Authors: | Chen Yunjie Zhang Jianwei Yang Jianwei |
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Affiliation: | Department of Math, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China |
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Abstract: | Intensity inhomogeneities cause considerable difficulty in the quantitative analysis of magnetic resonance (MR) images. Thus, bias field correction is a necessary step before quantitative analysis of MR data can be undertaken. This paper presents an anisotropic approach to bias correction and segmentation for images with intensity inhomogeneities and noise. Intensity-based methods are usually applied to estimate the bias field; however, most of them only concern the intensity information. When the images have noise or slender topological objects, these methods cannot obtain accurate results or bias fields. We use structure information to construct an anisotropic Gibbs field and combine the anisotropic Gibbs field with the Bayesian framework to segment images while estimating the bias fields. Our method is able to capture bias of quite general profiles. Moreover, it is robust to noise and slender topological objects. The proposed method has been used for images of various modalities with promising results. |
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Keywords: | Bias field Image segmentation Anisotropic Gibbs field |
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