Table 3.

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

Fusion method	Q	MI	E	SD	BSSIM	SF	AG
Proposed method—level 2	0.4967	4.0205	5.3671	61.9143	0.7500	23.5420	6.3747
Level 3	0.4873	3.5976	5.4120	61.8504	0.7343	24.0667	6.7283
Level 4	0.4861	3.2489	5.5064	61.5818	0.7091	24.2196	6.1282
Level 5	0.4818	3.0343	5.4945	61.0913	0.7004	24.2190	6.7798
Level 6	0.4768	2.8660	5.6753	61.2172	0.6516	24.0972	6.7355
Level 7	0.4745	2.7483	5.6970	61.7318	0.6372	24.0472	6.6961
Level 8	0.4757	2.7412	6.3419	63.5084	0.5174	24.0370	6.7847
GP	0.5228	3.1159	5.7497	49.6324	0.6742	17.0952	4.4506
CP	0.6475	3.2326	4.5518	55.1066	0.7453	23.8488	6.3681
RP	0.6313	3.6672	4.8964	55.8167	0.7522	24.9349	6.6187
PCA	0.3722	3.8902	4.6139	51.7377	0.7968	12.4883	3.3413
DWT with DBSS	0.4386	3.0704	5.2558	54.1881	0.7076	21.0803	5.8365
SIDWT with Haar	0.6097	3.5023	5.0878	54.2085	0.7667	20.3357	5.4552