Medical image fusion using m-PCNN

• Published in: Information fusion Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 176 - 185
• Main Authors: Wang, Zhaobin, Ma, Yide
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.04.2008
• Subjects: Image processing; Medical image fusion; Multimodal image; PCNN; Quality assessment; Medical image fusion; Quality assessment; Image processing; PCNN; Multimodal image
• ISSN: 1566-2535; 1872-6305
• DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2007.04.003

Medical image fusion plays an important role in clinical applications such as image-guided surgery, image-guided radiotherapy, non-invasive diagnosis, and treatment planning. Pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) is derived from the synchronous neuronal burst phenomena in the cat visual cortex. Howeve...