Table 5.

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

Method and metrics	DWT	MPCNN	CSR	NSCT	CSMCA	GFS	NSCT_SR	NSCT_PCLP	Proposed
EN	5.1882	4.5606	5.0707	5.2326	5.2264	5.0675	5.2382	5.3630	5.3986
MI	3.0102	2.8981	3.1521	3.2376	3.1540	3.1720	3.1314	2.9770	3.2543
Q${}^{AB/F}$	0.3285	0.1949	0.4450	0.3787	0.4033	0.4591	0.3969	0.3244	0.4704
PSNR	62.8892	59.1924	62.9195	63.4793	63.2778	61.9589	63.4066	62.4729	63.9196
SD	72.5167	36.8359	66.2284	75.6873	70.2274	63.8462	76.9269	81.5905	85.0497
AG	8.5255	4.2299	7.3163	7.3904	6.6782	8.8754	7.3899	8.4993	9.4748
Time (sec)	0.3183	29.6324	51.4395	1.2437	327.855	0.2523	11.4953	2.5246	35.5117

The bold values indicate the best result of the evaluation criterion