Log-Gabor energy based multimodal medical image fusion in NSCT domain

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yang, Yong ^a   Tong, Song ^a   Huang, Shuying ^a   Lin, Pan ^b  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM (DT-CWT); FAST DISCRETE CURVELET TRANSFORM (FDCT); IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INVARIANT REPRESENTATION; LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MULTIMODAL MEDICAL IMAGES; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS;

IMAGE FUSION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM; DUAL TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORM; EVALUATION STUDY; FAST DISCRETE CURVELET TRANSFORM; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LOG GABOR ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONSUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ENTROPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84912568252     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/835481     Document Type: Article

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