Documentation/4.0/Modules/IntensityDifferenceMetric

Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is supported by NA-MIC, NAC, NCIGT, and the Slicer Community. This work is partially supported by Brain Science Foundation and NIH U01 CA151261. Author: Andrey Fedorov, Kilian Pohl, Peter Black, Ron Kikinis, SPL Contact: Andrey Fedorov <email>fedorov@bwh.harvard.edu</email>

NA-MIC   Brain Science Foundation   NCIGT

Module Description

Intensity Difference Metric can be used to quantify the differences between the two images. The assumptions made by this metric are that: the images are aligned and the major source of difference is due to the anatomical changes of the structures the changes are small

IntensityDifferenceMetric change quantification results

Use Cases

Most frequently used for these scenarios:

• This metric is used in the last step of processing by ChangeTracker.

Tutorials

See ChangeTracker documentation.

Panels and their use

IntensityDifferenceMetric parameters panel

References

• Konukoglu, E., Wells, W. M., Novellas, S., Ayache, N., Kikinis, R., Black, P. M., & Pohl, K. M. (2008). Monitoring slowly evolving tumors. 2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro (pp. 812-815). IEEE. doi:10.1109/ISBI.2008.4541120 URL
• Pohl, K. M., Konukoglu, E., Novellas, S., Ayache, N., Fedorov, A., Talos, I.-F., Golby, A., et al. (2011). A new metric for detecting change in slowly evolving brain tumors: validation in meningioma patients. Neurosurgery, 68(1 Suppl Operative), 225-33. doi:10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820783d5 URL