Praitayini Kanakaraj, Tianyuan Yao, Leon Y Cai, Ho Hin Lee, Nancy R Newlin, Michael E Kim, Chenyu Gao, Kimberly R Pechman, Derek Archer, Timothy Hohman, Angela Jefferson, Lori L Beason-Held, Susan M Resnick, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Adam Anderson, Kurt G Schilling, Bennett A Landman, Daniel Moyer
T1-weighted (T1w) MRI has low frequency intensity artifacts due to magnetic field inhomogeneities. Removal of these biases in T1w MRI images is a critical preprocessing step to ensure spatially consistent image interpretation. N4ITK bias field correction, the current state-of-the-art, is implemented in such a way that makes it difficult to port between different pipelines and workflows, thus making it hard to reimplement and reproduce results across local, cloud, and edge platforms. Moreover, N4ITK is opaque to optimization before and after its application, meaning that methodological development must work around the inhomogeneity correction step...
March 25, 2024: Neuroinformatics