FusionINN: Decomposable Image Fusion for Brain Tumor Monitoring

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Autori principali: Kumar, Nishant, Tao, Ziyan, Singh, Jaikirat, Li, Yang, Sun, Peiwen, Zhao, Binghui, Gumhold, Stefan
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author Kumar, Nishant
Tao, Ziyan
Singh, Jaikirat
Li, Yang
Sun, Peiwen
Zhao, Binghui
Gumhold, Stefan
author_facet Kumar, Nishant
Tao, Ziyan
Singh, Jaikirat
Li, Yang
Sun, Peiwen
Zhao, Binghui
Gumhold, Stefan
contents Image fusion typically employs non-invertible neural networks to merge multiple source images into a single fused image. However, for clinical experts, solely relying on fused images may be insufficient for making diagnostic decisions, as the fusion mechanism blends features from source images, thereby making it difficult to interpret the underlying tumor pathology. We introduce FusionINN, a novel decomposable image fusion framework, capable of efficiently generating fused images and also decomposing them back to the source images. FusionINN is designed to be bijective by including a latent image alongside the fused image, while ensuring minimal transfer of information from the source images to the latent representation. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the decomposability of fused images, which is particularly crucial for life-sensitive applications such as medical image fusion compared to other tasks like multi-focus or multi-exposure image fusion. Our extensive experimentation validates FusionINN over existing discriminative and generative fusion methods, both subjectively and objectively. Moreover, compared to a recent denoising diffusion-based fusion model, our approach offers faster and qualitatively better fusion results.
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spellingShingle FusionINN: Decomposable Image Fusion for Brain Tumor Monitoring
Kumar, Nishant
Tao, Ziyan
Singh, Jaikirat
Li, Yang
Sun, Peiwen
Zhao, Binghui
Gumhold, Stefan
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Image fusion typically employs non-invertible neural networks to merge multiple source images into a single fused image. However, for clinical experts, solely relying on fused images may be insufficient for making diagnostic decisions, as the fusion mechanism blends features from source images, thereby making it difficult to interpret the underlying tumor pathology. We introduce FusionINN, a novel decomposable image fusion framework, capable of efficiently generating fused images and also decomposing them back to the source images. FusionINN is designed to be bijective by including a latent image alongside the fused image, while ensuring minimal transfer of information from the source images to the latent representation. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the decomposability of fused images, which is particularly crucial for life-sensitive applications such as medical image fusion compared to other tasks like multi-focus or multi-exposure image fusion. Our extensive experimentation validates FusionINN over existing discriminative and generative fusion methods, both subjectively and objectively. Moreover, compared to a recent denoising diffusion-based fusion model, our approach offers faster and qualitatively better fusion results.
title FusionINN: Decomposable Image Fusion for Brain Tumor Monitoring
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15769