Medical Image Fusion Algorithm based on Local Average Energy-Motivated PCNN in NSCT Domain
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 10
Abstract
Medical Image Fusion (MIF) can improve the performance of medical diagnosis, treatment planning and image-guided surgery significantly through providing high-quality and rich-information medical images. Traditional MIF techniques suffer from common drawbacks such as: contrast reduction, edge blurring and image degradation. Pulse-coupled Neural Network (PCNN) based MIF techniques outperform the traditional methods in providing high-quality fused images due to its global coupling and pulse synchronization property; however, the selection of significant features that motivate the PCNN is still an open problem and plays a major role in measuring the contribution of each source image into the fused image. In this paper, a medical image fusion algorithm is proposed based on the Non-subsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and the Pulse-Coupled Neural Network (PCNN) to fuse images from different modalities. Local Average Energy is used to motivate the PCNN due to its ability to capture salient features of the image such as edges, contours and textures. The proposed approach produces a high quality fused image with high contrast and improved content in comparison with other image fusion techniques without loss of significant details on both levels: the visual and the quantitative.
Authors and Affiliations
Huda Ahmed, Emad Hassan, Amr Badr
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