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A new pansharp based method for PET/CT image fusion

  • Wei Mu
  • , Zhe Chen
  • , Jie Tian*
  • , Zhaohui Zhu
  • , Di Dong
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • CAS - Institute of Automation
  • Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

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Abstract

PET/CT image fusion has emerged as a new and promising research area in recent years, whereas the current standard method for PET/CT fusion, Alpha-blending, often blurs fine anatomical structure. In this paper, a new fusion method based on the Pansharp model is presented. Our proposed method consists of first up-scaling the PET image to the resolution of the CT data by bilinear interpolation and registering them with mutual information, then integrating the anatomical information into the original PET image and transforming it to a multi-channel RGB image using a color table, and then simulating the panchromatic image with multiple regression analysis, and finally obtaining the fused image according to the Pansharp model. Our method is verified based on 45 real data sets and both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the fusion results demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1140-1143
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781467319591
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event11th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 29 Apr 20142 May 2014

Publication series

Name2014 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period29/04/142/05/14

Keywords

  • Image fusion
  • PET/CT
  • Parsharp model

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