#include <itkMRASlabIdentifier.h>
Inheritance diagram for itk::MRASlabIdentifier:
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typedef MRASlabIdentifier | Self |
typedef Object | Superclass |
typedef SmartPointer< Self > | Pointer |
typedef SmartPointer< const Self > | ConstPointer |
typedef TInputImage | ImageType |
typedef TInputImage::Pointer | ImagePointer |
typedef TInputImage::ConstPointer | ImageConstPointer |
typedef TInputImage::PixelType | ImagePixelType |
typedef TInputImage::IndexType | ImageIndexType |
typedef TInputImage::SizeType | ImageSizeType |
typedef TInputImage::RegionType | ImageRegionType |
typedef std::vector< ImageRegionType > | SlabRegionVectorType |
Public Methods | |
virtual const char * | GetClassName () const |
itkSetConstObjectMacro (Image, ImageType) | |
virtual void | SetNumberOfMinimumsPerSlice (int _arg) |
virtual int | GetNumberOfMinimumsPerSlice () |
void | GenerateSlabRegions (void) |
SlabRegionVectorType | GetSlabRegionVector (void) |
virtual void | SetSlicingDirection (int _arg) |
virtual int | GetSlicingDirection () |
Static Public Methods | |
Pointer | New () |
Protected Methods | |
MRASlabIdentifier () | |
virtual | ~MRASlabIdentifier () |
void | PrintSelf (std::ostream &os, Indent indent) const |
This class is templated over the type of image. In many cases, a 3D MR image is constructed by merging smaller 3D blocks (slabs) which were acquired with different settings such as magnetic settings and patient positions. Therefore, stripe like patterns with slabs can be present in the resulting image. Such artifacts are called "slab boundary" artifacts or "venetian blind" artifacts.
With the slab boundary artifacts in an image, even a same tissue class's intensity values might vary significantly along the borders of slabs. Such rough value changes are not appropriate for some image processing methods. For example, MRIBiasFieldCorrectionFilter assumes a smooth bias field. However, with the slab boundary artifacts, the bias field estimation scheme that MRIBiasFieldCorrectionFilter uses might not adopt well. So, the MRIBiasFieldCorrectionFilter creates regions for slabs using the MRASlabIdentifier and then apply its bias correction scheme to each slab.
For this identifier, a slice means 2D image data which is extracted from the input image along one of three axes (x, y, z). Users can specify the slicing axis using the SetSlicingDirection(int dimension) member. (0 - x, 1 - y, 2 - z).
The identification scheme used here is very simple. 1) Users should specify how many pixels per slice the identifier will sample. 2) For each slice, the identifier searches the specified number of pixels of which intensity values are greater than 0 and less than those of the other pixels in the slice 3) The identifier calculates the average for each slice and the overall average using the search results. 4) For each slice, it subtracts the overall average from the slice average. If the sign of the subtraction result changes, then it assumes that a slab ends and another slab begins.
Definition at line 65 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h.
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Reimplemented from itk::Object. Definition at line 72 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Const Pointer type for the image. Definition at line 87 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Definition at line 91 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Type definition for the input image pixel type. Definition at line 90 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Pointer type for the image. Definition at line 84 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Definition at line 93 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Definition at line 92 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Type definition for the input image. Definition at line 81 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Reimplemented from itk::Object. Definition at line 71 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Standard class typedefs. Reimplemented from itk::Object. Definition at line 69 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Definition at line 94 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Reimplemented from itk::Object. Definition at line 70 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. |
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Definition at line 120 of file itkMRASlabIdentifier.h. References HardConnectedComponentImageFilter::PrintSelf(). |
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Compute the average values of miminum intensity pixels for each slice and compare the average values with overall averages. |
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Run-time type information (and related methods). Reimplemented from itk::Object. |
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Get the number of minimum intensity pixels per slice. |
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Get slab regions. |
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Set/Get the direction of slicing/ 0 - x axis, 1 - y axis, 2 - z axis |
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Set the input image. |
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Method for creation through the object factory. Reimplemented from itk::Object. |
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Methods invoked by Print() to print information about the object including superclasses. Typically not called by the user (use Print() instead) but used in the hierarchical print process to combine the output of several classes. Reimplemented from itk::Object. |
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Set the number of minimum intensity pixels per slice. |
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Set/Get the direction of slicing/ 0 - x axis, 1 - y axis, 2 - z axis |