Curvelet fusion of MR and CT images

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Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf [1 ]
32952, Egypt
机构：
[1] Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf
来源：
Prog. Electromagn. Res. C | 2008年 / 215-224期
关键词：
Magnetic resonance;
D O I：
10.2528/PIERC08041305
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摘要：
This paper presents a curvelet based approach for the fusion of magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) images. The objective of the fusion of an MR image and a CT image of the same organ is to obtain a single image containing as much information as possible about that organ for diagnosis. Some attempts have been proposed for the fusion of MR and CT images using the wavelet transform. Since medical images have several objects and curved shapes, it is expected that the curvelet transform would be better in their fusion. The simulation results show the superiority of the curvelet transform to the wavelet transform in the fusion of MR and CT images from both the visual quality and the peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) points of view. © 2008, Electromagnetics Academy. All rights reserved.
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页码：215 / 224
页数：9
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