Modified Approach of Multimodal Medical Image Fusion Using Daubechies Wavelet Transform

Abstract: The multimodal medical image fusion is an important application in many medical applications. This is used for the retrieval of complementary information from medical images. The MRI and CT image provides high resolution images with structural and anatomical information. The CT image is used in tumour and anatomical detection and MRI is used to obtain information among tissues. In this paper, we have proposed a new approach of multimodal medical image fusion on Daubechies wavelet transform coefficients. The fusion process starts with comparison of block wise standard deviation values of the coefficients. Here the standard deviation can be used to characterize the local variations within the block. The performance of proposed image fusion method is compared with existing algorithms and evaluated with mutual information between input and output images, entropy, standard deviation, fusion factor metrics. .

Keywords: Multimodal Medical Image Fusion, Daubechies Wavelet Transform.