Abbreviations

NSCT
PCNN
CT
MRI
CMR
PET
LFSs
HFSs
MSF
INSCT
CCD
POCS
RONH
HLAC
WPCA
FACS
DWT
SWT
DTCWT
CVT
PSO
FFT
NSP
NSDFB
RMSE
PSNR

Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform

Pulse Coupled Neural Network
Computed Tomography
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Positron Emission Tomography
Low Frequency Subbands
High Frequency Subbands
Modified Spatial Frequency
Inverse Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform
Charge Coupled Device
Projection onto Convex Sets
Retina Optic Nerve Head
High order Local Auto-Correlation
Weighted Principal Components Analysis
Facial Expression Measure System
Discrete Wavelet Transform
Stationary Wavelet Transform
Dual Tree Complex Wavelet Transform
Curvelet Transform
Particle Swarm Optimization
Fast Fourier Transform
Non Subsampled Pyramid
Non-Subsampled Directional Filter Bank
Root Mean Square Error
Peak Signal to Noise Ratio

List of Figures
Figure
Title of Figure
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2.1
Block Diagram of various Image Fusion Approaches
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2.2
Block Diagram of Various Multiscale Methods
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Block diagram of proposed multimodal medical image fusion 17
3.2
3.3
3.4
4.1
4.2
4.3

method
Three-stage non-subsampled pyramid decomposition
Four-channel non-subsampled directional filter bank
Structure of PCNN
Block Diagram of Multimodal Graph Cut Method
Block diagram for image fusion using DWT
Image Fusion using DWT
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List of Photos
Photo
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5

Title of Photo
CT Low frequency image
CT high frequency image
MRI Low frequency image
MRI High frequency image
Fused Image

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List of Graphs
Graph
Title of Graph
4.1
Comparison of RMSE and PSNR of Various Image Fusion Method
4.2

w.r.t. MRI Image

Comparison of RMSE and PSNR of Various Image Fusion Method
w.r.t. CT Image

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List of Tables
Table
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
4.1
4.2

Title of Table
Comparison Table for various Algorithms of Pixel Level Fusion
Comparison of various Algorithms for Decision Level Fusion
Comparison of various Algorithms for Feature Level Fusion
Comparison of various Algorithms for Laplacian Fusion
Fusion using Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet
Comparison of Various Fusion Algorithms using CVT
Comparison of Various Fusion Algorithms using NSCT
Performance Measurement
Performance Results of Different Fusion Method

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