A new contrast based multimodal medical image fusion framework

Neurocomputing

Volumn 157, Issue , 2015, Pages 143-152

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

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JODHPUR   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Directive contrast; Entropy; Medical imaging; Multimodal fusion; Non subsampled contourlet transform

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC ARCS; ENTROPY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; TEXTURES;

DIRECTIVE CONTRAST; HIGH FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; LOW-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; MULTI-MODAL FUSION; MULTIMODAL MEDICAL IMAGES; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM (NSCT); NON-SUB-SAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE FUSION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BONE DISEASE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENTROPY; FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NON SUBSAMPLED CONTOURLET TRANSFORM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; X RAY;

EID: 84924044486     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.01.025     Document Type: Article

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