In recent years, numerous methodologies have been proposed for the correction of motion, eddy-currents and echo planar imaging (EPI) distortions for diffusion MRI data. The typical strategy to assess the quality of these corrections is to compare them to an undistorted image, such as a T1-weighted or T2-weighted structural image, with different quality measures such as outlines, similarity metrics or segmentation overlaps. Even though several of these measures are quantitative, the use of wide range of validation strategies in combination with data with significantly different distortion properties complicates a direct comparison of these techniques. In this work, we propose a quantitative, unbiased and robust strategy to evaluate the performances of these correction techniques and provide a publicly available benchmarking dataset.
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