• For the OASIS database, keywords (medical image fusion) AND (OASIS OR https://www.oasis-brains.org/) were used, from which 18 research articles were extracted.
• For the AANLIB database, keywords (medical image fusion) AND (AANLIB OR Harvard medical OR http://www.med.harvard.edu/ AANLIB/home.html) were used. It can be observed that most of the articles used this database because it contains a variety of modalities and is easy to use. Most articles on medical image fusion were obtained from this database compared to the other four.
• For the ADNI database, keywords (medical image fusion) AND (ADNI OR http://adni.loni.usc.edu/) were used.
• For the TCIA database, keywords (medical image fusion) AND (tcia OR cancer imaging archive OR https://www.cancerimagingarchive. net/) were searched.
• For the MIDAS database, keywords (medical image fusion) AND (RIRE OR https://www.insight-journal.org/) were utilized.