Evaluation of non-uniformity corrections for tumor response measurements [MRI segmentation]

Two popular non-uniformity techniques were evaluated for the effect on tumor response measurements (change in tumor volume over time): a phantom correction method and homomorphic filtering. No improvement in tumor segmentation was achieved, and the tumor response measurement was less accurate when using a correction.

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