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The information that is acquired additionally from fused images can be effectively employed for highly accurate positioning of abnormality. Since diverse kinds of images produce various information, IF becomes more complicated for conventional methods to generate fused images. Here, a unified image fusion convolutional neural network (UIFCNN) is designed for IF utilizing medical images. To execute the IF process, two input images, namely, native T1 and T2 fluid\u2010attenuated inversion recovery (T2\u2010FLAIR) are taken from a dataset. An input image\u2010T1 is preprocessed employing bilateral filter (BF), and it is segmented by a recurrent prototypical network (RP\u2010Net) to obtain segmented output\u20101. Simultaneously, input image\u2010T2\u2010FLAIR is also preprocessed by BF and then segmented using RP\u2010Net to acquire segmented output\u20102. 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