@inproceedings{e1d5e5eb90a14d6382856f1dac211636,
title = "Multimodal medical image fusion by combining gradient minimization smoothing filter and non-subsampled directional filter bank",
abstract = "A new algorithm was proposed for medical images fusion in this paper, which combined gradient minimization smoothing filter (GMSF) with non-sampled directional filter bank (NSDFB). In order to preserve more detail information, a multi scale edge preserving decomposition framework (MEDF) was used to decompose an image into a base image and a series of detail images. For the fusion of base images, the local Gaussian membership function is applied to construct the fusion weighted factor. For the fusion of detail images, NSDFB was applied to decompose each detail image into multiple directional sub-images that are fused by pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is superior to the compared algorithms in both visual effect and objective assessment.",
keywords = "Image fusion, gradient minimization smoothing filter, non sub-sampled directional filter bank, pulse coupled neural network",
author = "Cheng Zhang and Wenbo Mei and Huiqian Du and Zexian Wang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; 9th International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2017 ; Conference date: 14-10-2017 Through 16-10-2017",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1117/12.2303626",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Hui Yu and Junyu Dong",
booktitle = "Ninth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing, ICGIP 2017",
address = "United States",
}