In image-based medical decision-making, different modalities of medical images of a given organ of a patient are captured. Each of these images will represent a modality that will render the examined organ differently, leading to different observations of a given phenomenon (such as stroke). The accurate analysis of each of these modalities promotes the detection of more appropriate medical decisions. Multimodal medical imaging is a research field that consists in the development of robust algorithms that can enable the fusion of image information acquired by different sets of modalities. In this paper, a novel multimodal medical image fusion algorithm is proposed for a wide range of medical diagnostic problems. It is based on the application of a boundary measured pulse-coupled neural network fusion strategy and an energy attribute fusion strategy in a non-subsampled shearlet transform domain. Our algorithm was validated in dataset with modalities of several diseases, namely glioma, Alzheimer’s, and metastatic bronchogenic carcinoma, which contain more than 100 image pairs. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation verifies that the proposed algorithm outperforms most of the current algorithms, providing important ideas for medical diagnosis.

Deep Learning-based Smart Healthcare is getting so much attention due to real-time applicability in everyone life's, and It has obtained more attention with the convergence of IoT. Diabetic eye disease is the primary cause of blindness between working aged peoples. The major populated Asian countries such as India and China presently account for millions of people and at the verge of an eruption of diabetic inhabitants. These growing number of diabetic patients posed a major challenge among trained doctors to provide medical screening and diagnosis. Our goal is to leverage the deep learning techniques to automate the detection of blind spot in an eye and identify how severe the stage may be. In this paper, we propose an optimized technique on top of recently released pre-trained EfficientNet models for blindness identification in retinal images along with a comparative analysis among various other neural network models. Our fine-tuned EfficientNet-B5 based model evaluation follows the benchmark dataset of retina images captured using fundus photography during varied imaging stages and outperforms CNN and ResNet50 models.