Table 4.

Assessment of different fusion methods on CT/MR-Gad images

Method and metrics	DWT	MPCNN	CSR	NSCT	CSMCA	GFS	NSCT_SR	NSCT_PCLP	Proposed
EN	4.6619	4.0622	4.5380	4.8419	4.5102	4.6686	4.7651	4.8893	4.9821
MI	2.9486	2.6828	2.9653	3.1088	3.0709	3.0124	3.1098	3.0928	3.1953
Q${}^{AB/F}$	0.3715	0.1279	0.4317	0.4152	0.4443	0.4497	0.4291	0.4080	0.4736
PSNR	64.4828	60.0427	64.8071	64.6118	64.8093	64.1848	64.7035	64.6530	64.9061
SD	69.8985	30.6469	64.5089	76.7335	70.8491	66.0041	78.0360	79.3871	84.4695
AG	8.0279	3.2498	6.6523	7.4735	6.6833	6.7030	7.4143	7.3386	9.6266
Time (sec)	0.4067	34.7309	55.5042	3.0921	1755.09	0.3146	32.9427	2.6856	101.439

The bold values indicate the best result of the evaluation criterion