Union Laplacian pyramid with multiple features for medical image fusion

Neurocomputing

Volumn 194, Issue , 2016, Pages 326-339

  Du, Jiao ^a   Li, Weisheng ^a   Xiao, Bin ^a   Nawaz, Qamar ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Contrast enhancement; Image fusion; Multiple features; Objective image quality metrics; Outline enhancement; Pyramid

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT; MULTIPLE FEATURES; MULTISCALE REPRESENTATIONS; OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; PYRAMID; RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS;

IMAGE FUSION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LAPLACIAN PYRAMID; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL IMAGE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TONE MAPPED IMAGE QUALITY INDEX METRY;

EID: 84977934911     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: 18728286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.02.047     Document Type: Article

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