@inproceedings{19daf8c54c0449528a7bb50ea069580f,
title = "Fusion of perpendicular anisotropic MRI sequences",
abstract = "The quality of magnetic resonance images (MRI) is often limited by anisotropic voxels necessitated by acquisition considerations. Examination of the 3D anatomy and post-processing of such images is challenged by the partial volume effects due to such anisotropic voxels. We propose a method based on the separable wavelet transform to fuse anisotropic clinical images, which are often acquired in perpendicular directions, for example axial, sagittal and coronal, into a single fine-resolution image. We investigate several possible wavelet filters, fusion rules and the number of decomposition levels. Our method shows promising results of restoring features apparently lost due to the partial volume effect.",
keywords = "Image fusion, anisotropic MRI, wavelet transform",
author = "Chi, \{J. Wenjun\} and Brady, \{Sir Michael\} and Moore, \{Niall R.\} and Schnabel, \{Julia A.\}",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/ISBI.2011.5872674",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424441280",
series = "Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1455--1458",
booktitle = "2011 8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging",
note = "8th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2011 ; Conference date: 30-03-2011 Through 02-04-2011",
}