Medical Image Fusion Based on Wavelet Multi-Scale Decomposition

Huiping Zhu, Bin Wu, Peng Ren

College of Information Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China.
College of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China..

DOI: 10.4236/jsip.2013.42029                

Abstract

This paper describes a method to decompose multi-scale information from different source medical image using wavelet transformation. The data fusion between CT image and MRI image is implemented based on the coefficients fusion rule which included choice of regional variance and weighted average wavelet information. The result indicates that this method is better than WMF, LEF and RVF on fusion results, details and target distortion.

Keywords

Wavelet Transform; Image Fusion; Regional Variance Improvement; Fusion Rule

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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