Approximately 60% of cancer patients are treated with external beam radiotherapy at some point during disease management. Despite the extended time frame of fractionated therapy (4–6 weeks), radiation therapy planning is carried out based on information that is currently limited to a single 3D anatomical computed tomography scan at the onset of treatment. This concept may result in severe treat...

Image analysis using more than one modality (i.e. multi-modal) has been increasingly applied in the field of biomedical imaging. One of the challenges in performing the multimodal analysis is that there exist multiple schemes for fusing the information from different modalities, where such schemes are application-dependent and lack a unified framework to guide their designs. In this work we fir...

With the development of acquisition image techniques, more and more image data from different sources of image become available. Multi-modality image fusion seeks to combine information from different images to obtain more inferences than can be derived from a single modality. In medical imaging based application fields, image fusion has emerged as a promising research area since the end of the...

enterovesical fistula is an abnormal communication between the bladder and the intestine. the accurate localization of leakage is important for accurate treatment planning. some imaging techniques can not demonstrate the fistula; therefore, choosing the appropriate imaging technique is necessary. ct enterography (cte) is a new technique for evaluation of the small bowel and the entire abdomen. ...

Since the 1990s, hybrid imaging by means of software and hardware image fusion alike allows the intrinsic combination of functional and anatomical image information. This review summarises in three parts the state of the art of dual-technique imaging with a focus on clinical applications. We will attempt to highlight selected areas of potential improvement of combined imaging technologies and n...