Feature Selection based on PCA and PSO for Multimodal Medical Image Fusion using DTCWT

Abstract: Multimodal medical image fusion helps to increase efficiency in medical diagnosis. This paper presents multimodal medical image fusion by selecting relevant features using Principle Component Analysis (PCA) and Particle Swarm Optimization techniques (PSO). DTCWT is used for decomposition of the images into low and high frequency coefficients. Fusion rules such as combination of minimum, maximum and simple averaging are applied to approximate and detailed coefficients. The fused image is reconstructed by inverse DTCWT. Performance metrics are evaluated and it shows that DTCWT-PCA performs better than DTCWT-PSO in terms of Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) and Cross Correlation (CC). Computation time and feature vector size is reduced in DTCWT-PCA compared to DTCWT-PSO for feature selection which proves robustness and storage capacity.