A novel image fusion algorithm based on 2D scale-mixing complex wavelet transform and Bayesian MAP estimation for multimodal medical images

Abdallah Bengueddoudj; Zoubeida Messali; Volodymyr Mosorov

doi:10.1142/s1793545817500018

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