This paper presents a new image fusion approach for multi-focus image fusion. Considering that for the same scene, the energies of images captured on the focus and without the focuses are different, thus, fusion decision at some regions can be made based on the magnitudes of the energy. Certainly, fusion would be easily carried out once the source images have been segmented as a sequence of reg...

a multi‑parameter quantification method was implemented to quantify retinal vascular injuries in microscopic images of clinically relevant eye diseases. this method was applied to wholemount retinal trypsin digest images of diabetic akita/+, and bcl‑2 knocked out mice models. five unique features of retinal vasculature were extracted to monitor early structural changes and retinopathy, as well ...

segmentation and three‑dimensional (3d) visualization of teeth in dental computerized tomography (ct) images are of dentists’ requirements for both abnormalities diagnosis and the treatments such as dental implant and orthodontic planning. on the other hand, dental ct image segmentation is a difficult process because of the specific characteristics of the tooth’s structure. this paper presents ...

to investigate the effect of preprocessing techniques including contrast enhancement and illumination correction on retinal imagequality, a comparative study was carried out. we studied and implemented a few illumination correction and contrast enhancementtechniques on color retinal images to find out the best technique for optimum image enhancement. to compare and choose thebest illumination c...

Ray Casting is a direct volume rendering technique for visualizing 3D arrays of sampled data. It has vital applications in medical and biological imaging. Nevertheless, it is inherently open to cluttered classification results. It suffers from overlapping transfer function values and lacks a sufficiently powerful voxel parsing mechanism for object distinction. In this work, we are proposing an ...

PURPOSE In computed tomography, metallic objects in the scanning field create the so-called metal artifacts in the reconstructed images. Interpolation-based methods for metal artifact reduction (MAR) replace the metal-corrupted projection data with surrogate data obtained from interpolation using the surrounding uncorrupted sinogram information. Prior-based MAR methods further improve interpola...

The objective of image fusion is to combine information from multiple images of the same scene. The result of image fusion is a new image which is more suitable for human and machine perception or further image-processing tasks such as segmentation, feature extraction and object recognition. Different fusion methods have been proposed in literature, including multiresolution analysis. The doubl...

In order to improve and accelerate the speed of image integration, an optimal and intelligent method for multi-focus image fusion is presented in this paper. Based on particle swarm optimization and quantum theory, quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) intelligent search strategy is introduced in salience analysis of a contrast visual masking system, combined with the segmentation techniqu...

We present a system known as Med-LIFE (Medical application of Learning, Image Fusion, and Exploration) currently under development for medical image analysis. This pipelined system contains three processing stages that make possible multi-modality image fusion, learning-based segmentation, and exploration of these results. The fusion stage supports the combination of multi-modal medical images ...