Image Fusion Methods for Medical and General Purpose Applications

  • Bhakti Y Sathe University of Pune
  • Gauri D Khedkar
  • Asmita A Chavan
  • Mansi S Kolwankar
Keywords: Image fusion, Spatial Domain, Transform domain, Quality metrics

Abstract

The image fusion is used to combine the complementary information from multiple images of the same scene into a single image which includes more information than rest of the input images. In situations where spatial and spectral information is required in a single image such as in medical imaging, remote sensing, digital camera; image fusion is necessary. Images are fused by Spatial domain & Transform domain methods. Quality of fused images is assessed by several quality metrics.

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Published
2018-03-21
How to Cite
Sathe, B., Khedkar, G., Chavan, A., & Kolwankar, M. (2018). Image Fusion Methods for Medical and General Purpose Applications. Asian Journal For Convergence In Technology (AJCT) ISSN -2350-1146, 2(2). Retrieved from http://www.asianssr.org/index.php/ajct/article/view/181
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