PMID- 28473868
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171109
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1748-6718 (Electronic)
IS  - 1748-670X (Print)
IS  - 1748-670X (Linking)
VI  - 2017
DP  - 2017
TI  - A Novel Fusion Framework Based on Adaptive PCNN in NSCT Domain for Whole-Body PET 
      and CT Images.
PG  - 8407019
LID - 10.1155/2017/8407019 [doi]
LID - 8407019
AB  - The PET and CT fusion images, combining the anatomical and functional 
      information, have important clinical meaning. This paper proposes a novel fusion 
      framework based on adaptive pulse-coupled neural networks (PCNNs) in 
      nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) domain for fusing whole-body PET and CT 
      images. Firstly, the gradient average of each pixel is chosen as the linking 
      strength of PCNN model to implement self-adaptability. Secondly, to improve the 
      fusion performance, the novel sum-modified Laplacian (NSML) and energy of edge 
      (EOE) are extracted as the external inputs of the PCNN models for low- and 
      high-pass subbands, respectively. Lastly, the rule of max region energy is 
      adopted as the fusion rule and different energy templates are employed in the 
      low- and high-pass subbands. The experimental results on whole-body PET and CT 
      data (239 slices contained by each modality) show that the proposed framework 
      outperforms the other six methods in terms of the seven commonly used fusion 
      performance metrics.
FAU - Song, Zhiying
AU  - Song Z
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3849-6238
AD  - Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
FAU - Jiang, Huiyan
AU  - Jiang H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1428-8776
AD  - Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
FAU - Li, Siqi
AU  - Li S
AD  - Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170403
PL  - United States
TA  - Comput Math Methods Med
JT  - Computational and mathematical methods in medicine
JID - 101277751
SB  - IM
MH  - *Algorithms
MH  - Humans
MH  - Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/*methods/standards
MH  - *Neural Networks, Computer
MH  - *Positron-Emission Tomography
MH  - *Tomography, X-Ray Computed
PMC - PMC5394910
EDAT- 2017/05/06 06:00
MHDA- 2017/11/10 06:00
PMCR- 2017/04/03
CRDT- 2017/05/06 06:00
PHST- 2017/01/09 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/03/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/03/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/05/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/05/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/11/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/04/03 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1155/2017/8407019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Comput Math Methods Med. 2017;2017:8407019. doi: 10.1155/2017/8407019. Epub 2017 
      Apr 3.