Title
Improving the correction of eddy current-induced distortion in diffusion-weighted images by excluding signals from the cerebral spinal fluid.
Abstract
Iterative cross-correlation (ICC) is the most popularly used schema for correcting eddy current (EC)-induced distortion in diffusion-weighted imaging data, however, it cannot process data acquired at high b-values. We analyzed the error sources and affecting factors in parameter estimation, and propose an efficient algorithm by expanding the ICC framework with a number of techniques: (1) pattern recognition for excluding brain ventricles; (2) ICC with the extracted ventricle for parameter initialization; (3) gradient-based entropy correlation coefficient (GECC) for optimal and finer registration. Experiments demonstrated that our method is robust with high accuracy and error tolerance, and outperforms other ICC-family algorithms and popular approaches currently in use.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.06.004
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ADC,BET,CSF,DTI,DW,DWI,EAR,EC,ECC,MTS,FA,FAST,FDT,FLAIR,GECC,ICC,L-BFGS-B,MI,SE-EPI
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
7
0895-6111
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Liu100.68
Xiaozheng Liu201.35
Guang Yang3173.33
Zhenyu Zhou439544.36
Yong-Di Zhou583.27
Gengying Li600.68
Marc Dubin7121.17
Ravi Bansal821820.86
Bradley S Peterson911516.96
Dongrong Xu1022341.05