TY - GEN
T1 - Fusion of vibro-acoustography images and X-ray mammography
AU - Gholamhosseini, H.
AU - Alizad, A.
AU - Fatemi, M.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Image fusion, or combination of two images obtained by different techniques, has been widely used in medical imaging. Vibro-acoustography (VA) is a new imaging modality that has been applied to both medical and industrial imaging. Combining unique diagnostic information of VA with other medical imaging is one of our research interests. In this work, we studied the VA and x-ray image pairs and adopted two methods for fusing the registered VA and x-ray image. In the first method, the fused image is defined as a linear combination of the VA and x-ray images. Moreover, a color-based fusion technique was employed to combine the images for better visualization of structural information. By combining the information from x-ray mammogram and VA modalities into a single image, the accuracy of mammography interpretation which is important for women's health can be increased.
AB - Image fusion, or combination of two images obtained by different techniques, has been widely used in medical imaging. Vibro-acoustography (VA) is a new imaging modality that has been applied to both medical and industrial imaging. Combining unique diagnostic information of VA with other medical imaging is one of our research interests. In this work, we studied the VA and x-ray image pairs and adopted two methods for fusing the registered VA and x-ray image. In the first method, the fused image is defined as a linear combination of the VA and x-ray images. Moreover, a color-based fusion technique was employed to combine the images for better visualization of structural information. By combining the information from x-ray mammogram and VA modalities into a single image, the accuracy of mammography interpretation which is important for women's health can be increased.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259426
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259426
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17946531
AN - SCOPUS:34047138048
SN - 1424400325
SN - 9781424400324
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 2803
EP - 2806
BT - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
T2 - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Y2 - 30 August 2006 through 3 September 2006
ER -