Title
A novel approach for multimodal medical image fusion
Abstract
Fusion of multimodal medical images increases robustness and enhances accuracy in biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. It attracts much attention over the past decade. In this paper, an efficient multimodal medical image fusion approach based on compressive sensing is presented to fuse computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The significant sparse coefficients of CT and MRI images are acquired via multi-scale discrete wavelet transform. A proposed weighted fusion rule is utilized to fuse the high frequency coefficients of the source medical images; while the pulse coupled neural networks (PCNN) fusion rule is exploited to fuse the low frequency coefficients. Random Gaussian matrix is used to encode and measure. The fused image is reconstructed via Compressive Sampling Matched Pursuit algorithm (CoSaMP). To show the efficiency of the proposed approach, several comparative experiments are conducted. The results reveal that the proposed approach achieves better fused image quality than the existing state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, the novel fusion approach has the superiority of high stability, good flexibility and low time consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.eswa.2014.05.043
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
cosamp,compressive sensing,discrete wavelet transform,pcnn,multimodal medical images
Computer vision,Image fusion,Computer science,Image quality,Robustness (computer science),Gaussian,Artificial intelligence,Discrete wavelet transform,Fuse (electrical),Artificial neural network,Compressed sensing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
41
16
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
22
0.68
25
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhaodong Liu1703.61
Hongpeng Yin21098.24
Yi Chai337543.43
Simon X. Yang41029124.34