Development of New Image Fusion Techniques / M Munawwar Iqbal Ch

By: Iqbal Ch, M MunawwarContributor(s): Supervised by Dr. Naima IltafMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Rawalpindi, MCS (NUST), 2020Description: xv, 108 pSubject(s): PhD Computer Software Engineering Thesis | PhD CSE ThesisDDC classification: 005.1,IQB
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The imagefusionprocessaimstocombinethecrucialinformationfrommultipleim- ages obtainedfromdifferentresources.Numerousimagefusiontechniquesarepro- posed toachievebetterfusionaccuracyhowevertheygenerallyyieldlessinformative edge details,introduceartifactsandhaveblurreddetailsinmultifocusimages.More- over,inmedicalimages,resultantfusedimageshavemissingfinedetailsofdifferent tissues, improperfusionofdifferenttissuesandboundariesarealsonotclearlydemar- cated. This workpresents,differentmulti-focusandmulti-modeltechniquestominimize the above-mentionedissues/limitation.Crossbilateralfilterwhichprovidesbetterper- ceptual qualityiscombinedwithnon-subsampledcontourlettransformtomaximize the usefulinformationpresentinmultiplescalesanddirections.Guidedfilterwhose computing timeisindependentoffiltersizeandwellpreservesedgesiscombinedwith discrete wavelettransformformoreinformativeedgedetails.Alphamapalongwith top hattransformextractscommonpropertiesofdifferentimages.Saliencymapshows more meaningfulrepresentationofimagethereforeitisusedalongwithcrossbilat- eral filtertofusemultimodalbrainimagemodalitieswhichhelptocombinethefacts found inmultiplemedicalimagesthathaveexceptionaldistinctivemodalities.Energy of Laplaciananddiscretewavelettransformbasedfusionofmultimodalbrainimages helps toproperlydemarcateboundariesofdifferenttissues.Shiftinvariantdiscrete wavelettransformandsparsefusionisusedformoreinformativeanatomydetailsof medical imageswhichhelpsradiologistsinevaluatingdifferentmodalityimages. Proposed multifocusimagefusionschemesmaintaindifferentimagedetailslikere- duce edgeblurring,introducelessartifactsandpreservesharpedgedetails.Moreover, suggested multimodalimagefusionschemesformedicalimagespreservethefinede- tails ofdifferenttissues,properfusionofdifferenttissuesandclearlydemarcatethe boundaries toobtainhighqualityfusedimage.Higherquantitativeandqualitativeout- comes areobservedintheproposedframeworksforfusionschemesascomparedto other existingschemes. In generalourresearchworkpresentsmulti-focusandmulti-modelimagefusion problems intwomaindomainsi.e.photographyapplications(toovercometheproblem of depthoffieldofcameras)andbiomedicalimaging.Theproposednovelandeffec- tivealgorithmshavebeentestedonrealworlddatatodemonstratetheirperformance improvement.
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The imagefusionprocessaimstocombinethecrucialinformationfrommultipleim-
ages obtainedfromdifferentresources.Numerousimagefusiontechniquesarepro-
posed toachievebetterfusionaccuracyhowevertheygenerallyyieldlessinformative
edge details,introduceartifactsandhaveblurreddetailsinmultifocusimages.More-
over,inmedicalimages,resultantfusedimageshavemissingfinedetailsofdifferent
tissues, improperfusionofdifferenttissuesandboundariesarealsonotclearlydemar-
cated.
This workpresents,differentmulti-focusandmulti-modeltechniquestominimize
the above-mentionedissues/limitation.Crossbilateralfilterwhichprovidesbetterper-
ceptual qualityiscombinedwithnon-subsampledcontourlettransformtomaximize
the usefulinformationpresentinmultiplescalesanddirections.Guidedfilterwhose
computing timeisindependentoffiltersizeandwellpreservesedgesiscombinedwith
discrete wavelettransformformoreinformativeedgedetails.Alphamapalongwith
top hattransformextractscommonpropertiesofdifferentimages.Saliencymapshows
more meaningfulrepresentationofimagethereforeitisusedalongwithcrossbilat-
eral filtertofusemultimodalbrainimagemodalitieswhichhelptocombinethefacts
found inmultiplemedicalimagesthathaveexceptionaldistinctivemodalities.Energy
of Laplaciananddiscretewavelettransformbasedfusionofmultimodalbrainimages
helps toproperlydemarcateboundariesofdifferenttissues.Shiftinvariantdiscrete
wavelettransformandsparsefusionisusedformoreinformativeanatomydetailsof
medical imageswhichhelpsradiologistsinevaluatingdifferentmodalityimages.
Proposed multifocusimagefusionschemesmaintaindifferentimagedetailslikere-
duce edgeblurring,introducelessartifactsandpreservesharpedgedetails.Moreover,
suggested multimodalimagefusionschemesformedicalimagespreservethefinede-
tails ofdifferenttissues,properfusionofdifferenttissuesandclearlydemarcatethe
boundaries toobtainhighqualityfusedimage.Higherquantitativeandqualitativeout-
comes areobservedintheproposedframeworksforfusionschemesascomparedto
other existingschemes.
In generalourresearchworkpresentsmulti-focusandmulti-modelimagefusion
problems intwomaindomainsi.e.photographyapplications(toovercometheproblem
of depthoffieldofcameras)andbiomedicalimaging.Theproposednovelandeffec-
tivealgorithmshavebeentestedonrealworlddatatodemonstratetheirperformance
improvement.

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