NSCT-based multimodal medical image fusion using pulse-coupled neural network and modified spatial frequency.
Med Biol Eng Comput
; 50(10): 1105-14, 2012 Oct.
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| ID: mdl-22825746
ABSTRACT
In this article, a novel multimodal medical image fusion (MIF) method based on non-subsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) and pulse-coupled neural network (PCNN) is presented. The proposed MIF scheme exploits the advantages of both the NSCT and the PCNN to obtain better fusion results. The source medical images are first decomposed by NSCT. The low-frequency subbands (LFSs) are fused using the 'max selection' rule. For fusing the high-frequency subbands (HFSs), a PCNN model is utilized. Modified spatial frequency in NSCT domain is input to motivate the PCNN, and coefficients in NSCT domain with large firing times are selected as coefficients of the fused image. Finally, inverse NSCT (INSCT) is applied to get the fused image. Subjective as well as objective analysis of the results and comparisons with state-of-the-art MIF techniques show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in fusing multimodal medical images.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Interpretação de Imagem Assistida por Computador
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Redes Neurais de Computação
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Biol Eng Comput
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
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Índia