Title :
Multiframe Medical Images Enhancement on Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform Domain
Author :
Huimin Lu ; Yujie Li ; Nakashima, S. ; Shiyuan Yang ; Lifeng Zhang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Kyushu Inst. of Technol., Kitakyushu, Japan
Abstract :
As a novel of multi-resolution analysis tool, dual tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) provides flexible multiresolution and directional expansion for medical image fusion. In this paper, a novel fusion method for multiframe medical images based on DTCWT is proposed. Contrary to present fusion methods, the proposed algorithm extends the 2 inputs model to multi inputs model. We take 8 input unclearly medical images as input. Then, we estimate the decomposed coefficients through the weighted soft threshold in each image, and choose the weighted coefficients. After DTCWT reconstruction, the clear image is gotten. During abundant experiments, we evaluate the proposed method both human visual and quantitative analysis. Compare with the-state-of-the-art methods, the new strategy for attaining image fusion with satisfactory performance.
Keywords :
image enhancement; image fusion; image reconstruction; image resolution; medical image processing; trees (mathematics); wavelet transforms; DTCWT reconstruction; directional expansion; dual tree complex wavelet transform domain; human visual analysis; medical image fusion; multiframe medical images enhancement; multiresolution analysis tool; multiresolution expansion; quantitative analysis; weighted soft threshold; Biomedical imaging; Discrete wavelet transforms; Image fusion; Indexes; Multiresolution analysis; dual tree complex wavelet transform; image fusion; medical image;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2013 14th ACIS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
DOI :
10.1109/SNPD.2013.72