High resolution image acquisition from magnetic resonance and computed tomography scans using the curvelet fusion algorithm with inverse interpolation techniques

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 114-125

  Ali, Fatma E ^a   El Dokany, Ibrahim M ^a   Saad, Abdelfattah A ^a   Al Nuaimy, Waleed ^b   Abd El Samie, Fathi E ^a  

^a MENOUFIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CUBIC-SPLINE INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; CURVELET TRANSFORMS; FUSION ALGORITHMS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INVERSE INTERPOLATION; RIDGELET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 75449093818     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000114     Document Type: Article

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