Medical image fusion using multi-level local extrema

Information Fusion

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 38-48

  Xu, Zhiping ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Medical image fusion; Multi level local extrema; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS; IMAGE FUSION PERFORMANCE MEASURES; IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; LOCAL EXTREMUM; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; QUALITY ASSESSMENT;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84897997749     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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