Title :
Fusion of SPECT and MRI images using back and fore ground information
Author :
Nobariyan, Behzad Kalafje ; Daneshvar, Sabalan ; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sahand Univ. of Technol., Tabriz, Iran
Abstract :
Perception and diagnosis of disorders by using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) image is difficult since this image does not contain anatomical Information. In the studies it is tried to make innovation SPECT image by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and image fusion methods. So the fused image is obtained involving functional and anatomical information. MRI image shows tissue brain anatomy and it has high spatial resolution without functional information. SPECT shows brain function and it has low spatial resolution. Fusion of SPECT and MRI images leads to a high spatial resolution image. The fused image with desired specifications consists in spatial and spectral distortions. Substitution methods such as IHS and Multi-resolution fusion methods such as wavelet transform preserve spatial and spectral information respectively. In This article we present a method that preserves both spatial and spectral information well and minimizes distortions of fused images relative to other methods.
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical MRI; brain; image fusion; image resolution; medical image processing; single photon emission computed tomography; wavelet transforms; IHS; MRI image fusion; SPECT image fusion; anatomical information; background information; brain function; disorder diagnosis; disorder perception; foreground information; functional information; high spatial resolution; high spatial resolution image; low spatial resolution image; magnetic resonance imaging; multiresolution fusion methods; single photon emission computed tomography; spatial distortions; spectral distortions; spectral information; substitution methods; tissue brain anatomy; wavelet transform; Image fusion; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical diagnostic imaging; Single photon emission computed tomography; Spatial resolution; Transforms; Background; Foreground; Fusion; MRI; SPECT;
Conference_Titel :
Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP), 2013 8th Iranian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Zanjan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6182-8
DOI :
10.1109/IranianMVIP.2013.6779984