Medical Image Fusion in Spatial and Transform Domain

Abstract

Nowadays, there are a lot of medical images and their numbers are increasing day by day. These medical images are stored in the large database. To minimize the redundancy and optimize the storage capacity of images, medical image fusion is used. The main aim of medical image fusion is to combine complementary information from multiple imaging modalities (e.g. CT, MRI, PET, etc.) of the same scene. After performing medical image fusion, the resultant image is more informative and suitable for patient diagnosis. There are some fusion techniques which are described in this chapter to obtain fused image. This chapter presents two approaches to image fusion, namely spatial domain Fusion technique and transforms domain Fusion technique. This chapter describes Techniques such as Principal Component Analysis which is spatial domain technique and Discrete Wavelet Transform and Stationary Wavelet Transform which are Transform domain techniques. Performance metrics are implemented to evaluate the performance of image fusion algorithm.