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Histogram-based normalization technique on human brain magnetic resonance images from different acquisitions

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Title
Histogram-based normalization technique on human brain magnetic resonance images from different acquisitions
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BioMedical Engineering OnLine, July 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12938-015-0064-y
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Xiaofei Sun, Lin Shi, Yishan Luo, Wei Yang, Hongpeng Li, Peipeng Liang, Kuncheng Li, Vincent C T Mok, Winnie C W Chu, Defeng Wang

Abstract

Intensity normalization is an important preprocessing step in brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) analysis. During MR image acquisition, different scanners or parameters would be used for scanning different subjects or the same subject at a different time, which may result in large intensity variations. This intensity variation will greatly undermine the performance of subsequent MRI processing and population analysis, such as image registration, segmentation, and tissue volume measurement. In this work, we proposed a new histogram normalization method to reduce the intensity variation between MRIs obtained from different acquisitions. In our experiment, we scanned each subject twice on two different scanners using different imaging parameters. With noise estimation, the image with lower noise level was determined and treated as the high-quality reference image. Then the histogram of the low-quality image was normalized to the histogram of the high-quality image. The normalization algorithm includes two main steps: (1) intensity scaling (IS), where, for the high-quality reference image, the intensities of the image are first rescaled to a range between the low intensity region (LIR) value and the high intensity region (HIR) value; and (2) histogram normalization (HN),where the histogram of low-quality image as input image is stretched to match the histogram of the reference image, so that the intensity range in the normalized image will also lie between LIR and HIR. We performed three sets of experiments to evaluate the proposed method, i.e., image registration, segmentation, and tissue volume measurement, and compared this with the existing intensity normalization method. It is then possible to validate that our histogram normalization framework can achieve better results in all the experiments. It is also demonstrated that the brain template with normalization preprocessing is of higher quality than the template with no normalization processing. We have proposed a histogram-based MRI intensity normalization method. The method can normalize scans which were acquired on different MRI units. We have validated that the method can greatly improve the image analysis performance. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that with the help of our normalization method, we can create a higher quality Chinese brain template.

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Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 172 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 20%
Researcher 24 14%
Student > Bachelor 21 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 11%
Student > Postgraduate 6 3%
Other 19 11%
Unknown 49 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 38 22%
Computer Science 23 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 18 10%
Neuroscience 11 6%
Physics and Astronomy 9 5%
Other 17 10%
Unknown 58 33%
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