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Brain Image Fusion Approach based on Side Window Filtering
Procedia Computer Science
  • Ahmad AL Smadi, Xidian University
  • Ahed Abugabah, Zayed University
  • Atif Mehmood, Xidian University
  • Shuyuan Yang, Xidian University
Document Type
Article
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.

Publisher
Elsevier
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Medical image fusion,
  • Image filtering,
  • Side window filtering,
  • MRI,
  • PET
Scopus ID
85124609253
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Ahmad AL Smadi, Ahed Abugabah, Atif Mehmood and Shuyuan Yang. "Brain Image Fusion Approach based on Side Window Filtering" Procedia Computer Science Vol. 198 (2022)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ahed-abugabah/34/