Table 1.

Quantitative evaluation of fusion results for the first set of medical images.

Fusion method	Q	MI	E	SD	BSSIM	SF	AG
Proposed method—level 2	0.7286	2.1396	5.9335	32.9163	0.5251	9.9138	3.7456
Level 3	0.6675	1.6705	6.0177	32.9062	0.5121	10.3127	3.9258
Level 4	0.6097	1.3475	6.1343	32.9446	0.4931	10.4907	4.0249
Level 5	0.5844	1.3666	6.1673	33.7868	0.4856	10.5698	4.0154
Level 6	0.5871	1.3352	6.2107	33.7941	0.4815	10.5912	4.0377
Level 7	0.5862	1.3137	6.2215	33.7733	0.4805	10.5952	4.0422
Level 8	0.5863	1.3204	6.2225	33.7558	0.4799	10.5947	4.0434
GP	0.5784	1.0243	5.4698	19.7350	0.4793	6.6479	2.3911
CP	0.2542	0.9452	1.9243	33.3962	0.5000	14.5826	2.7348
RP	0.2658	0.9901	3.5655	33.1739	0.4794	14.6512	2.9503
PCA	0.6395	2.6305	5.6220	28.3806	0.5371	6.9945	2.6799
DWT with DBSS	0.4269	1.0342	5.5227	22.8441	0.4429	8.7605	3.1299
SIDWT with Haar	0.7014	1.1510	5.3313	25.6650	0.4816	9.4682	3.3500