Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical ...Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical image fusion solutions to protect image details and significant information, a new multimodality medical image fusion method(NSST-PAPCNNLatLRR) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the high and low-frequency sub-band coefficients are obtained by decomposing the source image using NSST. Then, the latent low-rank representation algorithm is used to process the low-frequency sub-band coefficients;An improved PAPCNN algorithm is also proposed for the fusion of high-frequency sub-band coefficients. The improved PAPCNN model was based on the automatic setting of the parameters, and the optimal method was configured for the time decay factor αe. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the five mainstream fusion algorithms, the new algorithm has significantly improved the visual effect over the comparison algorithm,enhanced the ability to characterize important information in images, and further improved the ability to protect the detailed information;the new algorithm has achieved at least four firsts in six objective indexes.展开更多
Medical image fusion has been developed as an efficient assistive technology in various clinical applications such as medical diagnosis and treatment planning.Aiming at the problem of insufficient protection of image ...Medical image fusion has been developed as an efficient assistive technology in various clinical applications such as medical diagnosis and treatment planning.Aiming at the problem of insufficient protection of image contour and detail information by traditional image fusion methods,a new multimodal medical image fusion method is proposed.This method first uses non-subsampled shearlet transform to decompose the source image to obtain high and low frequency subband coefficients,then uses the latent low rank representation algorithm to fuse the low frequency subband coefficients,and applies the improved PAPCNN algorithm to fuse the high frequency subband coefficients.Finally,based on the automatic setting of parameters,the optimization method configuration of the time decay factorαe is carried out.The experimental results show that the proposed method solves the problems of difficult parameter setting and insufficient detail protection ability in traditional PCNN algorithm fusion images,and at the same time,it has achieved great improvement in visual quality and objective evaluation indicators.展开更多
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,grant number 61302188.
文摘Multimodal medical image fusion can help physicians provide more accurate treatment plans for patients, as unimodal images provide limited valid information. To address the insufficient ability of traditional medical image fusion solutions to protect image details and significant information, a new multimodality medical image fusion method(NSST-PAPCNNLatLRR) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the high and low-frequency sub-band coefficients are obtained by decomposing the source image using NSST. Then, the latent low-rank representation algorithm is used to process the low-frequency sub-band coefficients;An improved PAPCNN algorithm is also proposed for the fusion of high-frequency sub-band coefficients. The improved PAPCNN model was based on the automatic setting of the parameters, and the optimal method was configured for the time decay factor αe. The experimental results show that, in comparison with the five mainstream fusion algorithms, the new algorithm has significantly improved the visual effect over the comparison algorithm,enhanced the ability to characterize important information in images, and further improved the ability to protect the detailed information;the new algorithm has achieved at least four firsts in six objective indexes.
文摘Medical image fusion has been developed as an efficient assistive technology in various clinical applications such as medical diagnosis and treatment planning.Aiming at the problem of insufficient protection of image contour and detail information by traditional image fusion methods,a new multimodal medical image fusion method is proposed.This method first uses non-subsampled shearlet transform to decompose the source image to obtain high and low frequency subband coefficients,then uses the latent low rank representation algorithm to fuse the low frequency subband coefficients,and applies the improved PAPCNN algorithm to fuse the high frequency subband coefficients.Finally,based on the automatic setting of parameters,the optimization method configuration of the time decay factorαe is carried out.The experimental results show that the proposed method solves the problems of difficult parameter setting and insufficient detail protection ability in traditional PCNN algorithm fusion images,and at the same time,it has achieved great improvement in visual quality and objective evaluation indicators.
