Combination Wavelet & Curvelet Based Fusion for Medical Application

Abstract:

Image fusion is a data fusion technology which keeps images as main research contents. It refers to the techniques that integrate multi-images of the same scene from multiple image sensor data or integrate multi images of the same scene at different times from one image sensor. The image fusion algorithm based on Wavelet Transform which faster developed was a multiresolution analysis image fusion method in recent decade. Wavelet Transform successfully has in good image time-frequency processing characteristics. It was its applied excellent field. Nevertheless,

characteristic in one-dimension cant be extended to two dimensions or multi-dimension simply. Separable wavelet which was spanning by onedimensional wavelet has limited directivity. This paper introduces the Second Generation Curvelet Transform and uses it to fuse images, different kinds of fusion methods are compared at last. The experiments show that the method could extract useful information from source images to fused images so that clear images are obtained. This paper analyzes the characteristics of the Second Generation Curvelet Transform and put forward an image fusion algorithm based on Wavelet Transform and the Second Generation Curvelet Transform. We looked at the selection principles about low and high frequency coefficients according to different frequency domain after Wavelet and the Second Generation Curvelet Transform. In choosing the low-frequency coefficients, the concept of local area variance was chosen to measuring criteria. In choosing the high frequency coefficients, the window property and local characteristics of pixels were analyzed. Finally, the proposed algorithm in this article was

applied to experiments of multi-focus image fusion and complementary image fusion.

Existing Method: DWT Based Image Fusion Firstly, the image is decomposed into high-frequency images and low frequency images with wavelet transform. Then the spatial frequency and the contrast of the low-frequency image are measured to determine the fused low frequency image. To the high-frequency image, we select the high- frequency coefficient based on the absolute value maximum principal and verify the consistency of these coefficients. Contrast Based Image Fusion First Pyramid Structural Transform The mean value of the local window of the approximate coefficient be the background of the central pixel of the corresponding local window of the detail component. And the maximum coefficients of detail components are respectively taken as the most salient features with the corresponding local window along horizontal, vertical, and diagonal directions. Then the new contrast is defined DWT is not a suitable transform for edge information For all medical images the contrast will be same so we cant take contrast feature for Fusion Proposed Method: Using Wavelet Transform to decompose original images into proper levels. One low-frequency approximate component and three highfrequency detail components will be acquired in each level. Drawbacks of Existing Method:

Curvelet Transform of individual acquired low frequency approximate component and high frequency detail components from both of images, neighborhood interpolation method is used and the details of gray cant be changed.

According to definite standard to fuse images, local area variance is chose to measure definition for low frequency component.

Inverse Transformation is taken to get Original Image

Block Diagram:

Input Image (CT)

DWT

Curvelet

Variance

Fused Image

Inverse Transform

Fusion

Input Image (MRI)

DWT

Curvelet

Variance

Application: Medical Application Satellite & Research Application Digital Camera Application War Field Applications

Tool: MATLAB 7.5