X-ray and Fluorescent Molecular Tomography Image Fusion
This paper describes a new method developed for fusion of X-ray and fluorescent molecular tomography(FMT) images. For easier diagnostics, images obtained from X-ray and FMT sources are fused to generate perceptiblyinformative image display using the spatial and spectral domain properties of the images. The basic premise in thisresearch originates from the fact that in medical imaging not all the spatial and spectral properties are present indifferent image sensing modalities. X-ray images are inherently in grayscale with no color information and soft tissuesbeing transparent. This makes it difficult to localize tissue anomalies while the FMT provides a finer scanning resultthat yields higher resolution images showing the details of soft tissues. Fusing these two imaging modalities is expectedto create visually distinctive results than each source provides alone. In particular, for color images of fluorescentmolecular tomography, color clustering can play a significant role in improving the visual quality by means ofsegmentation. To obtain better matching shapes, X-ray and fluorescent molecular tomography images are fused usingedge detection and color clustering methods. Experimental results obtained are highly promising with much improvedvisual image quality for more accurate diagnostic assessments.
Melih Altun Mehmet Celenk
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Stocker Center, Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 USA
国际会议
成都
英文
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2010-06-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）