Partial volume tissue classification of multichannel magnetic resonance images-a mixel model.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
A single volume element (voxel) in a medical image may be composed of a mixture of multiple tissue types. The authors call voxels which contain multiple tissue classes mixels. A statistical mixel image model based on Markov random field (MRF) theory and an algorithm for the classification of mixels are presented. The authors concentrate on the classification of multichannel magnetic resonance (MR) images of the brain although the algorithm has other applications. The authors also present a method for compensating for the gray-level variation of MR images between different slices, which is primarily caused by the inhomogeneity of the RF field produced by the imaging coil.