Table 4 Quantitative comparison results of the ablation study (mean values are shown).MP, FE, and MS denote the Multi-Path Fusion Strategy, Feature Enhancement Module, and Multi-Scale Strategy, respectively. \(\uparrow\) indicates that removing the specified module leads to better performance on this metric.
From: A novel multimodel medical image fusion framework with edge enhancement and cross-scale transformer
Fusion tasks | CT and MRI image fusion | PET and MRI image fusion | SPECT and MRI image fusion | |||||||||
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w/o MP | w/o FE | w/o MS | w/ MP&FE&MS | w/o MP | w/o FE | w/o MS | w/ MP&FE&MS | w/o MP | w/o FE | w/o MS | w/ MP&FE&MS | |
MI | 3.2559 | 3.6647\(\uparrow\) | 3.1857 | 3.6244 | 3.9962 | 3.9286 | 4.0125 | 4.5539 | 4.0444 | 3.9795 | 4.0698 | 4.5115 |
Qabf | 0.5679 | 0.5917 | 0.6230 | 0.6497 | 0.7501 | 0.7488 | 0.7513 | 0.7555 | 0.7346 | 0.7323 | 0.7362 | 0.7378 |
VIF | 0.5671 | 0.6576 | 0.5717 | 0.6707 | 0.8233 | 0.8019 | 0.8189 | 0.8788 | 0.8545 | 0.8318 | 0.8607 | 0.8796 |
SSIM | 0.6451 | 0.2267 | 0.6574\(\uparrow\) | 0.6554 | 0.6375 | 0.6343 | 0.6434 | 0.6487 | 0.6135 | 0.4847 | 0.6083 | 0.6152 |
Qcb | 0.6804 | 0.4339 | 0.6874 | 0.6981 | 0.6230 | 0.6295 | 0.6418 | 0.6552 | 0.6788↑ | 0.4072 | 0.6748 | 0.6779 |
Qcv\(\downarrow\) | 1288.90 | 1625.17 | 1157.75 | 1150.07 | 72.10 | 75.07 | 73.03 | 71.50 | 51.23 | 52.61 | 53.46 | 50.37 |
