Directive contrast based multimodal medical image fusion in NSCT domain

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1014-1024

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directive contrast; Multimodal medical image fusion; Non subsampled contour transform; Phase congruency

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL APPLICATION; DIRECTIVE CONTRAST; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MULTI-MODALITY IMAGES; MULTIMODAL MEDICAL IMAGES; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); PHASE CONGRUENCY; RELEVANT INFORMATIONS;

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84880816676     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2013.2244870     Document Type: Article

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