Multi-modal medical image fusion using the inter-scale and intra-scale dependencies between image shift-invariant shearlet coefficients

Information Fusion

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-28

  Wang, Lei ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Tian, Lian Fang ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov Tree model; Image fusion; Medical image; Shearlet transform; Shift invariance

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS;

DEPENDENT RELATIONSHIP; FUNCTIONAL INFORMATION; HIDDEN MARKOV TREE MODEL; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SHEARLET TRANSFORMS; SHIFT-INVARIANCE; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84897979082     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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