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Deformable image registration is a critical technology in medical image analysis, with broad applications in clinical practice such as disease diagnosis, multi-modal fusion, and surgical navigation. Traditional methods often rely on…

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Combining information from multi-view images is crucial to improve the performance and robustness of automated methods for disease diagnosis. However, due to the non-alignment characteristics of multi-view images, building correlation and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Di Liu , Yunhe Gao , Qilong Zhangli , Ligong Han , Xiaoxiao He , Zhaoyang Xia , Song Wen , Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Mu Zhou , Dimitris Metaxas

Infrared-visible image fusion methods aim at generating fused images with good visual quality and also facilitate the performance of high-level tasks. Indeed, existing semantic-driven methods have considered semantic information injection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liying Wang , Xiaoli Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Siwei Ma

Deformable image registration between Computed Tomography (CT) images and Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging is essential for many image-guided therapies. In this paper, we propose a novel translation-based unsupervised deformable image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Zhe Xu , Jie Luo , Jiangpeng Yan , Ritvik Pulya , Xiu Li , William Wells , Jayender Jagadeesan

Multi-modal fusion approaches aim to integrate information from different data sources. Unlike natural datasets, such as in audio-visual applications, where samples consist of "paired" modalities, data in healthcare is often collected…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Nasir Hayat , Krzysztof J. Geras , Farah E. Shamout

It is necessary for clinicians to comprehensively analyze patient information from different sources. Medical image fusion is a promising approach to providing overall information from medical images of different modalities. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Fanda Fan , Yunyou Huang , Lei Wang , Xingwang Xiong , Zihan Jiang , Zhifei Zhang , Jianfeng Zhan

In clinical practice, well-aligned multi-modal images, such as Magnetic Resonance (MR) and Computed Tomography (CT), together can provide complementary information for image-guided therapies. Multi-modal image registration is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Zekang Chen , Jia Wei , Rui Li

Multimodal medical image fusion helps in combining contrasting features from two or more input imaging modalities to represent fused information in a single image. One of the pivotal clinical applications of medical image fusion is the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Nishant Kumar , Nico Hoffmann , Martin Oelschlägel , Edmund Koch , Matthias Kirsch , Stefan Gumhold

Current multimodal medical image fusion typically assumes that source images are of high quality and perfectly aligned at the pixel level. Its effectiveness heavily relies on these conditions and often deteriorates when handling misaligned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dayong Su , Yafei Zhang , Huafeng Li , Jinxing Li , Yu Liu

Multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) extracts the most meaningful information from multiple source images, enabling a more comprehensive and accurate diagnosis. Achieving high-quality fusion results requires a careful balance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dan He , Weisheng Li , Guofen Wang , Yuping Huang , Shiqiang Liu

In the last decade, convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been a major focus of research in medical image analysis. However, the performances of ConvNets may be limited by a lack of explicit consideration of the long-range spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey , Yufan He , William P. Segars , Ye Li , Yong Du

Multimodal visual information fusion aims to integrate the multi-sensor data into a single image which contains more complementary information and less redundant features. However the complementary information is hard to extract, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu

Accurate diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) from MRI remains challenging due to symptom variability and pathological heterogeneity. Most existing methods rely on conventional magnitude-based MRI modalities, such as T1-weighted images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rui Jin , Chen Chen , Yin Liu , Hongfu Sun , Min Zeng , Min Li , Yang Gao

Photoacoustic Tomography (PAT) is an emerging biomedical "imaging from coupled physics" technique, in which the image contrast is due to optical absorption, but the information is carried to the surface of the tissue as ultrasound pulses.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Simon R. Arridge , Marta M. Betcke , Ben T. Cox , Felix Lucka , Brad E. Treeby

This paper presents an innovative automatic fusion imaging system that combines 3D CT/MR images with real-time ultrasound (US) acquisition. The system eliminates the need for external physical markers and complex training, making image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Martina Paccini , Giacomo Paschina , Stefano De Beni , Andrei Stefanov , Velizar Kolev , Giuseppe Patanè

With the increasing use of surgical robots in clinical practice, enhancing their ability to process multimodal medical images has become a key research challenge. Although traditional medical image fusion methods have made progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Qinhua Xie , Hao Tang

Multimodal image fusion enables precise lesion localization and characterization for accurate diagnosis, thereby strengthening clinical decision-making and driving its growing prominence in medical imaging research. A powerful multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jie Song , Jun Jia , Wei Sun , Wangqiu Zhou , Tao Tan , Guangtao Zhai

Multi-view medical image analysis often depends on the combination of information from multiple views. However, differences in perspective or other forms of misalignment can make it difficult to combine views effectively, as registration is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Gijs van Tulder , Yao Tong , Elena Marchiori

Multi-modality (or multi-channel) imaging is becoming increasingly important and more widely available, e.g. hyperspectral imaging in remote sensing, spectral CT in material sciences as well as multi-contrast MRI and PET-MR in medicine.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-25 Leon Bungert , Matthias J. Ehrhardt

Complicated image registration is a key issue in medical image analysis, and deep learning-based methods have achieved better results than traditional methods. The methods include ConvNet-based and Transformer-based methods. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Runshi Zhang , Hao Mo , Junchen Wang , Bimeng Jie , Yang He , Nenghao Jin , Liang Zhu