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标题：Multi-modal Medical Image Fusion Based on Non-subsampled Shearlet Transform
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作者：Xing Xiaoxue ; Cao Fucheng ; Shang Weiwei 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
印刷版ISSN：2005-4254
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：41-48
DOI：10.14257/ijsip.2015.8.2.05
出版社：SERSC
摘要：In order to provide more comprehensive and effective information for cancer diagnosis and tumor treatment planning, it is necessary to fuse multi-modal medical images, such as CT/MRI image, CT/PET image, MRI/SPECT image and so on. In this paper, a multi- modal medical image fusion method based on Non-subsampled Shearlet Transform is proposed. Firstly, in this method, source images are decomposed into low-pass and high- pass subbands by NSST. Then, due to the characteristic features--large sparsity and strong contrast, the high-frequency and low-frequency coefficients of the images are fused by the different fusion rules. Finally, the image is reconstructed by the inverse non- sampled shearlet transform. In the method, the fusion rules are designed based on the regional energy and the average gradient; the image entropy, relative quality, average gradient, standard deviation and spatial frequency were used to evaluate the fusion results objectively. In the experiments, CT and MRI images are chosen to verify the method. Both the visual and the objective analysis show that the proposed method is better than the conventional Wavelet-based and non-subsampled Contourlet-based methods
关键词：Multi-modal Medical Images; NSST; Image Fusion; Evaluation Standard