A novel image fusion algorithm based on 2D scale-mixing complex wavelet transform and Bayesian MAP estimation for multimodal medical images

In this paper,we propose a new image fusion algorithm based on two-dimensional Scale-Mixing Complex Wavelet Transform(2D-SMCWT).The fusion of the detail 2D-SMCWT cofficients is performed via a Bayesian Maximum a Posteriori(MAP)approach by considering a trivariate statistical model for the local neighboring of 2D-SMCWT coefficients.For the approx imation coefficients,a new fusion rule based on the Principal Component Analysis(PCA)is applied.We conduct several experiments using three different groups of multimodal medical images to evaluate the performance of the proposed method.The obt ained results prove the superiority of the proposed method over the state of the art fusion methods in terms of visual quality and several commonly used metrics.Robustness of the proposed method is further tested against different types of noise.The plots of fusion met rics establish the accuracy of the proposed fusion method.

CHAOS FOR MIXING TRANSFORMATIONS

For a class of mixing transformations of a compact metric space it is proved that each chaoticsubset is'small' but the possibility for any finite subset to display chaotic behavior is 'large'.

Correspondence between quantum-optical transform and classical-optical transform explored by developing Dirac＇s symbolic method

By virtue of the new technique of performing integration over Dirac＇s ket-bra operators, we ex- plore quantum optical version of classical optical transformations such as optical Fresnel transform, Hankel transform, fractional Fourier transform, Wigner transform, wavelet transform and Fresnel- Hadmard combinatorial transform etc. In this way one may gain benefit for developing classical optics theory from the research in quantum optics, or vice-versa. We cannot only find some new quantum mechanical unitary operators which correspond to the known optical transformations, de- riving a new theorem for calculating quantum tomogram of density operators, but also can reveal some new classical optical transformations. For examples, we find the generalized Fresnel opera- tor （GFO） to correspond to the generalized Fresnel transform （GFT） in classical optics. We derive GFO＇s normal product form and its canonical coherent state representation and find that GFO is the loyal representation of symplectic group multiplication rule. We show that GFT is just the transformation matrix element of GFO in the coordinate representation such that two successive GFTs is still a GFT. The ABCD rule of the Gaussian beam propagation is directly demonstrated in the context of quantum optics. Especially, the introduction of quantum mechanical entangled state representations opens up a new area in finding new classical optical transformations. The complex wavelet transform and the condition of mother wavelet are studied in the context of quantum op- tics too. Throughout our discussions, the coherent state, the entangled state representation of the two-mode squeezing operators and the technique of integration within an ordered product （IWOP） of operators are fully used. All these have confirmed Dirac＇s assertion： ＂...for a quantum dynamic system that has a classical analogue, unitary transformation in the quantum theory is the analogue of contact transformation in the classical theory＂.