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Item Multi-Modal Medical Image Fusion with Adaptive Weighted Combination of NSST Bands Using Chaotic Grey Wolf Optimization(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019) Asha, C.S.; Lal, S.; Gurupur, V.P.; Saxena, P.U.P.Recently, medical image fusion has emerged as an impressive technique in merging the medical images of different modalities. Certainly, the fused image assists the physician in disease diagnosis for effective treatment planning. The fusion process combines multi-modal images to incur a single image with excellent quality, retaining the information of original images. This paper proposes a multi-modal medical image fusion through a weighted blending of high-frequency subbands of nonsubsampled shearlet transform (NSST) domain via chaotic grey wolf optimization algorithm. As an initial step, the NSST is applied on source images to decompose into the multi-scale and multi-directional components. The low-frequency bands are fused based on a simple max rule to sustain the energy of an individual. The texture details of input images are preserved by an adaptively weighted combination of high-frequency images using a recent chaotic grey wolf optimization algorithm to minimize the distance between the fused image and source images. The entire process emphasizes on retaining the energy of the low-frequency band and the transferring of texture features from source images to the fused image. Finally, the fused image is formed using inverse NSST of merged low and high-frequency bands. The experiments are carried out on eight different disease datasets obtained from Brain Atlas, which consists of MR-T1 and MR-T2, MR and SPECT, MR and PET, and MR and CT. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated using more than 100 pairs of images based on the subjective and objective quality assessment. The experimental results confirm that the proposed method performs better in contrast with the current state-of-the-art image fusion techniques in terms of entropy, VIFF, and FMI. Hence, the proposed method will be helpful for disease diagnosis, medical treatment planning, and surgical procedure. © 2013 IEEE.Item Analyzing data incompleteness for MRI Data for quality enhancement(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024) Shanbhag, S.; Raju, S.; Gurupur, V.P.; Kamath, S.S.; Kandala, R.N.V.P.S.; Trader, A.E.; Lal, S.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a powerful medical imaging technique widely used for diagnosing various conditions because it provides detailed images of internal structures within the body. However, like any imaging modality, MRI images can be susceptible to artifacts that may arise from various sources, including hardware imperfections, patient motion, and image acquisition techniques. Detecting and mitigating these artifacts are crucial steps in ensuring MRI scans' reliability and clinical utility. In this paper, we present algorithms specifically designed to address the challenges of undersampling and motion artifacts in MR images. Our approach involves leveraging advanced image processing techniques, including line detection algorithms for undersampling detection and blur parameter estimation for motion artifact analysis. By accurately identifying and quantifying these artifacts, our algorithms aim to improve MRI data's overall quality and completeness, ultimately enhancing diagnostic accuracy and patient care. © 2024 The Authors.
