Human visual system inspired multi-modal medical image fusion framework

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1708-1720

  Bhatnagar, Gaurav ^a   Jonathan Wu, Q M ^a   Liu, Zheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Framelet transform; Human visual systems; Medical image fusion; Smallest univalue segment assimilating nucleus; Visibility of image

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; FRAMELET; FUSED IMAGES; FUSION RULE; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM; HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEMS; IMAGING MODALITY; MEDICAL IMAGE FUSION; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTI-MODAL; SMALLEST UNIVALUE SEGMENT ASSIMILATING NUCLEUS; SOURCE IMAGES; TEXTURE INFORMATION;

DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; VISIBILITY;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84872026125     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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