Medical image fusion based on hybrid intelligence
A new hybrid algorithm called hybrid intelligence image fusion (HIIF) is used for fusing multimodal medical images. It uses two stages of intelligence. In the first stage, edges are detected using ACO technique and the edges are enhanced. The first stage output is given as the input to the second stage which is a simplified pulse coupled neural network. The algorithm was tested on 5 datasets of PET and MRI and 5 datasets of SPECT and MRI. The proposed algorithm performs better compared to the existing intelligence method.
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