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NSST Based MRI-PET/SPECT Color Image Fusion Using Local Features Fuzzy Rules and NSML in YIQ Space

  • Hikmat Ullah
  • , Yaqin Zhao
  • , Longwen Wu
  • , Fakheraldin Y.O. Abdalla
  • , Hassan Mkindu
  • School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

An improved algorithm for the fusion of anatomical structural MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and metabolic functional PET (positron emission tomography) or SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) images is proposed here. First, if any of the source image is in RGB format, it is converted to YIQ color space. Then by taking full advantage of non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST), both the input images (channel-Y and/or gray-scale) are decomposed into one low frequency subbands (LFS) and several high frequency subbands (HFS). Second, local spatial frequency (SF) and region energy (RE) based fuzzy pixel-rules are applied for the fusion of LFS. Where, the fused HFS coefficient is directly selected by computing and comparing novel sum-modified-Laplacian (NSML) of every HFS, to extract maximum and more useful information. Finally, the required fused image is achieved by inversed NSST and inversed YIQ transform. Experimental results obtained shows that the algorithm significantly achieved maximum feature information from the source images, enhance visual quality and contrast of the fused image, and decrease computational task compared to other state-of-art proposed methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728153414
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event19th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019 - Ajman, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 10 Dec 201912 Dec 2019

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE 19th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019

Conference

Conference19th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAjman
Period10/12/1912/12/19

Keywords

  • Fuzzy-rules
  • Local-features
  • MRI-PET and MRI-SPECT fusion
  • NSML
  • NSST
  • YIQ

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