International Journal of Engineering and Management Research (IJEMR)
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

FPGA Implementation of CT/MRI Image Fusion using Lifting-based Discrete Wavelet Transform

  • Author:
  • Priyanka L. Darkunde1, Sushma S. Agrawal2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 613 to 617

1PG Student, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad (M.S.), India

2Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad (M.S.), India

Online published on 21 November, 2017.

Abstract

The goal of image fusion is to combine two or more images into a single image, keeping the important information from each of the original images. Image fusion is a technique to improve the image content such that the resultant fused image will be useful for further analysis tasks. This paper presents FPGA implementation of fusion of medical images such as computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images, based on application of lifting-based scheme of discrete wavelet transform. Pixel level fusion rules are applied after one level wavelet decomposition of input images. The results of proposed methods are compared and analyzed with different image quality metrics such as entropy, MES and PSNR.

Keywords

Discrete wavelet transform (DWT), lifting scheme, haar transform, image fusion, FPGA, CT image, MRI image