Medical image fusion by combining nonsubsampled contourlet transform and sparse representation

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 484, Issue , 2014, Pages 372-381

  Liu, Yu ^a   Liu, Shuping ^a   Wang, Zengfu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES   (China)

Author keywords

Medical image fusion; Multi scale transform; Nonsubsampled contourlet transform; Sparse representation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FUSION ALGORITHMS; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; MULTI-SCALE TRANSFORMS; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); NON-SUB-SAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; SPARSE REPRESENTATION; VISUAL QUALITIES;

IMAGE FUSION;

EID: 84914811560     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: 18650937     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45643-9_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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