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Acsenrafilho: ENH: Improved the general information of BVeR module

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ENH: Improved the general information of BVeR module

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 ***Global=The threshold is set by the global image mean value (zeros are not considered)
 ***Manual=The user defines a fixed threshold.
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 **Due to decrease of segmentation errors, the outcome of large-scale morphological measurements can have better precision (e.g. cortical thickness and brain atrophy)
-<gallery widths="500px" perrow="2">
+<gallery widths="400px" heights="400px" perrow="2">
 Image:T1_BET.png|A T1 weighted MRI image with the brain extracted using BET.
 Image:T1_BET_BVeR.png|The BVeR application showing segmentation outlier corrections (brain external frontier)

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 **Due to decrease of segmentation errors, the outcome of large-scale morphological measurements can have better precision (e.g. cortical thickness and brain atrophy)
-<gallery widths="300px" perrow="3">
+<gallery widths="500px" perrow="2">
 Image:T1_BET.png|A T1 weighted MRI image with the brain extracted using BET.
 Image:T1_BET_BVeR.png|The BVeR application showing segmentation outlier corrections (brain external frontier)
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-Extension: [[Documentation/{{documentation/version}}/Extensions/AnomalousFilters|AnomalousFilters]]<br>
+Extension: [[Documentation/{{documentation/version}}/Extensions/BabyBrain|Baby Brain Toolkit]]<br>
 Webpage: http://dcm.ffclrp.usp.br/csim/<br>
-Author: Antonio Carlos da S. Senra Filho, CSIM Laboratory (University of Sao Paulo, Department of Computing and Mathematics)<br>
+Author: Antonio Carlos da S. Senra Filho and Fabricio Henrique Simozo, CSIM Laboratory (University of Sao Paulo, Department of Computing and Mathematics)<br>
 Contact: Antonio Carlos da S. Senra Filho, <email>acsenrafilho@usp.br</email><br>
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 |Image:CSIM-logo.png|CSIM Laboratory
 |Image:USP-logo.png|University of Sao Paulo
-|Image:CAPES-logo.png|CAPES Brazil
+|Image:CNPq-logo.png|CNPq Brazil
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-This module offer a simple application to the Anisotropic Anomalous Diffusion (AAD) filter, which is able to increase the image SNR and preserve fine object's details around the image space. This method was studied on MRI structural images (T1 and T2), which other imaging modalities could be properly investigated in the future.
+This is a CLI module for Brain Volume Refinement (BVeR) tool, which is useful to correct brain segmentation errors that may appear in commonly brain extraction methods. The BVeR algorithm was extensively tested on structural MRI images (T1 and T2) of normal individuals. Further details are found at '''PAPER'''
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 {{documentation/{{documentation/version}}/module-section|Use Cases}}
-* Use Case 1: Noise reduction as a preprocessing step for tissue segmentation
+* Use Case 1: Segmentation outliers removal from previous brain extraction process
-**When dealing with single voxel classification schemes running noise reduction as a preprocessing scheme will reduce the number of single misclassified voxels.
+**It is frequent to appear segmentation errors (outliers) in commonly used brain extraction algorithms (BET, FreeSufer, BSE, AFNI, ROBEX, etc), thus the BVeR application can be helpful.
-* Use Case 2: Preprocessing to volume rendering
+* Use Case 2: Improving brain morphological measurement in large-scale studies
-**Noise reduction will result in nicer looking volume renderings
+**Due to decrease of segmentation errors, the outcome of large-scale morphological measurements can have better precision (e.g. cortical thickness and brain atrophy)
 <gallery widths="300px" perrow="3">
-Image:MRI_raw.png|Raw T1 weighted MRI Image
+Image:T1_BET.png|A T1 weighted MRI image with the brain extracted using BET.
-Image:MRI_AAD.png|T1 weighted MRI Image with AAD filter (q=1.2)
+Image:T1_BET_BVeR.png|The BVeR application showing segmentation outlier corrections (brain external frontier)
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-[[Image:aad_scalar_gui.png|thumb|380px|User Interface]]
+[[Image:BVeR_gui.png|thumb|480px|User Interface]]
 '''IO:'''
 *'''Input Volume'''
-**Select the input image
+**This is a previous brain extracted image which presents small segmentation outliers on the brain frontier (e.g. dura matter or bone marrow).
-*'''Output Volume'''
+*'''Updated Volume'''
-**Set the output image file which the filters should place the final result
+**Updated Volume with the outlier segmentation being corrected.
-'''Diffusion Parameters:'''
+'''Brain Volume Refinement Parameters:'''
-*'''Conductance'''
+*'''Neighbourhood Radius'''
-**The conductance regulates the diffusion intensity in the neighborhood area. Choose a higher conductance if the input image has strong noise seem in the whole image space.
+**A list of 3 values indicating the (x,y,z) size of the neighbourhood. This should large enough in order to get a consistent local statistics (values around 3 to 8). Example: a radius of (1,1,1) creates a neighbourhood of (3,3,3) in image space.
-*'''Use Auto Conductance'''
+*'''Convergence'''
-**Choose if you want to use an automatic adjustment of conductance parameter. If this is checked, the inserted value is ignored and the optimization function below is used.
+**A relative value that indicates how permissive is the algorithm to keep changing the brain borders. This counts how many voxels were changed in previous iterations and then estimate whether the total amount of changes reaches a limit (regarding the total number of voxels changed in the brain volume). High values will result in conservative outputs (fewer changes in the brain volume), on the other hand, low values will force a strong volume difference.
-*'''Optimization Function'''
-**A set of optimization function for automatic estimation of conductance parameter. This is helpful is you do not have an initial guess on what value is appropriate to the conductance setting. (Canny, MAD and Morphological). Please see the [http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/983 Insight-Journal article] that explain each of these automatic conductance adjustment methods.
+'''Advanced Parameters'''
-*'''Number of Iteractions'''
+*'''Number Of Iterations'''
-**The number of iterations regulates the numerical simulation of the anomalous process over the image. This parameters is also related with the de-noising intensity, however it is more sensible to the noise intensity. Choose the higher number of iterations if the image presents high intensity noise which is not well treated by the conductance parameter.
+**Maximum number of iterations. The brain mask is iteratively updated in order to vanish bigger error in the previous brain extraction result. This is an up limit threshold in order to avoid infinite loop in the brain volume correction. If the convergence level does not reach a stable result, then the number of iteration limit will stop the algorithm.
-*'''Time Step'''
+*'''Apply Binary Hole Filling'''
-**The time step is a normalization parameters for the numerical simulation. The maximum value, given as default, is set to 3D images. Lower time step restrict the numerical simulation of the anomalous process.
+**Choose if you want to fill holes in the first brain mask. This is important to not place a searching window inside the brain area. One can avoid this if a previous visual check was made in order to confirm that there are no zero values inside the brain area.
-*'''Anomalous parameter'''
+*'''Fill Holes Radius'''
-**The anomalous parameter (or q value) is the generalization parameters responsible to give the anomalous process approach on the diffusion equation. See the reference paper<ref>Da S Senra Filho, A. C., Garrido Salmon, C. E., & Murta Junior, L. O. (2015). Anomalous diffusion process applied to magnetic resonance image enhancement. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 60(6), 2355–2373. doi:10.1088/0031-9155/60/6/2355</ref> to choose the appropriate q value (at moment, only tested in MRI T1 and T2 weighted images).
+**A list of 3 values indicating the (x,y,z) size of the neighbourhood used in the binary filling hole procedure. This parameter is only used if "Apply Binary Hole Filling" option is checked. Example: a radius of 1 creates an isotropic neighbourhood of (3,3,3).
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-*[[Documentation/{{documentation/version}}/Modules/IADImageFilter|IAD Image Filter]]
+N/A
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 {{documentation/{{documentation/version}}/module-section|References}}
-* Senra Filho, A.C. & Murta Junior, L. O., 2017. Automatic Conductance Estimation Methods for Anisotropic Diffusion ITK Filters. Insight-Journal. website: http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/983
+* PAPER
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Acsenrafilho: ENH: Improved the general information of BVeR module

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