Color Medical Imaging Fusion Based on Principle Component Analysis and F-Transform

In last years, various medical image fusion algorithms have been proposed to fuse medical image. But, most of them focus on fusing grayscale images. This paper proposes a qualified algorithm for the fusion of multimodal color medical images. The technique of F-transforms has mainly been employed as a fusion technique for images obtained from equal or different modalities. The restriction of fused color mixing RGB, substitution method is resolved by incorporating F-transform and color mixing RGB. The proposed method significantly outperforms the traditional methods in terms of both visual quality and objective evaluation, with improved contrast and overall intensity. The proposed method provides better visual information than the gray ones and more adaptable to human vision. Additional, PCA is functional on the two-level decomposition to maximize the spatial resolution. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed algorithm qualitatively outperforms many existing state-of-the-art multimodal image fusion algorithms. © 2018, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.