Image fusion meets deep learning: A survey and perspective

H Zhang, H Xu, X Tian, J Jiang, J Ma - Information Fusion, 2021 - Elsevier
Image fusion, which refers to extracting and then combining the most meaningful information
from different source images, aims to generate a single image that is more informative and …

Multi-focus image fusion: A survey of the state of the art

Y Liu, L Wang, J Cheng, C Li, X Chen - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
Multi-focus image fusion is an effective technique to extend the depth-of-field of optical
lenses by creating an all-in-focus image from a set of partially focused images of the same …

IFCNN: A general image fusion framework based on convolutional neural network

Y Zhang, Y Liu, P Sun, H Yan, X Zhao, L Zhang - Information Fusion, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a general image fusion framework based on the convolutional
neural network, named as IFCNN. Inspired by the transform-domain image fusion …

Fusiondn: A unified densely connected network for image fusion

H Xu, J Ma, Z Le, J Jiang, X Guo - Proceedings of the AAAI conference on …, 2020 - aaai.org
In this paper, we present a new unsupervised and unified densely connected network for
different types of image fusion tasks, termed as FusionDN. In our method, the densely …

Deep learning-based multi-focus image fusion: A survey and a comparative study

X Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-focus image fusion (MFIF) is an important area in image processing. Since 2017, deep
learning has been introduced to the field of MFIF and various methods have been proposed …

Deep learning for pixel-level image fusion: Recent advances and future prospects

Y Liu, X Chen, Z Wang, ZJ Wang, RK Ward, X Wang - Information fusion, 2018 - Elsevier
By integrating the information contained in multiple images of the same scene into one
composite image, pixel-level image fusion is recognized as having high significance in a …

Multi-focus image fusion with a deep convolutional neural network

Y Liu, X Chen, H Peng, Z Wang - Information Fusion, 2017 - Elsevier
As is well known, activity level measurement and fusion rule are two crucial factors in image
fusion. For most existing fusion methods, either in spatial domain or in a transform domain …

Multimodal medical image fusion algorithm in the era of big data

W Tan, P Tiwari, HM Pandey, C Moreira… - Neural computing and …, 2020 - Springer
In image-based medical decision-making, different modalities of medical images of a given
organ of a patient are captured. Each of these images will represent a modality that will …

ST-unet: Swin transformer boosted U-net with cross-layer feature enhancement for medical image segmentation

J Zhang, Q Qin, Q Ye, T Ruan - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Medical image segmentation is an essential task in clinical diagnosis and case analysis.
Most of the existing methods are based on U-shaped convolutional neural networks (CNNs) …

Medical image fusion via convolutional sparsity based morphological component analysis

Y Liu, X Chen, RK Ward… - IEEE Signal Processing …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, a sparse representation (SR) model named convolutional sparsity based
morphological component analysis (CS-MCA) is introduced for pixel-level medical image …