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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022

Medical image fusion quality assessment based on conditional generative adversarial network.

Lu Tang, Yu Hui, Hang Yang, Yinghong Zhao, Chuangeng Tian

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Lu TangSchool of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Yu HuiSchool of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Hang YangSchool of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Yinghong ZhaoSchool of Medical Imaging, Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China.
Chuangeng TianSchool of Information and Electrical Engineering, Xuzhou University of Technology, Xuzhou, China.

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Abstract

Multimodal medical image fusion (MMIF) has been proven to effectively improve the efficiency of disease diagnosis and treatment. However, few works have explored dedicated evaluation methods for MMIF. This paper proposes a novel quality assessment method for MMIF based on the conditional generative adversarial networks. First, with the mean opinion scores (MOS) as the guiding condition, the feature information of the two source images is extracted separately through the dual channel encoder-decoder. The features of different levels in the encoder-decoder are hierarchically input into the self-attention feature block, which is a fusion strategy for self-identifying favorable features. Then, the discriminator is used to improve the fusion objective of the generator. Finally, we calculate the structural similarity index between the

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attention mechanismconditionalgenerative adversarial networksimage quality assessmentmedical image fusion

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