Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Procedia Computer Science
Publication Date
1-1-2022
Abstract
Brain medical image fusion plays an important role in framing a contemporary image to enhance the reciprocal and repetitive information for diagnosis purposes. A novel approach using kernel-based image filtering on brain images is presented. Firstly, the Bilateral filter is used to generate a high-frequency component of a source image. Secondly, an intensity component is estimated for the first image. Thirdly, side window filtering is employed on several filters, including the guided filter, gradient guided filter, and weighted guided filter. Thereby minimizing the difference between the intensity component of the first image and the low pass filter of the second image. Finally, the fusion result is evaluated based on three evaluation indexes, including standard deviation (STD), features mutual information (FMI), average gradient (AG). The fused image based on this algorithm contains more information, more details, and clearer edges for better diagnosis. Thus, our fused image-based method is good at finding the position and state of the target volume, which leads to keeping away from the healthy parts and ensuring patients’ soundness.
DOI Link
Publisher
Elsevier
Volume
198
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Keywords
Medical image fusion, Image filtering, Side window filtering, MRI, PET
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Smadi, Ahmad AL; Abugabah, Ahed; Mehmood, Atif; and Yang, Shuyuan, "Brain Image Fusion Approach based on Side Window Filtering" (2022). All Works. 4844.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/4844
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series