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Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However, developing such automatic solutions remains very challenging due to…

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Medical imaging based prostate cancer diagnosis procedure uses intra-operative transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) imaging to visualize the prostate shape and location to collect tissue samples. Correct tissue sampling from prostate requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 M. S. Hossain , A. P. Paplinski , J. M. Betts

In this work we propose to segment the prostate on a challenging dataset of trans-rectal ultrasound (TRUS) images using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and statistical shape models (SSMs). TRUS is commonly used for a number of…

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Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer in the world. Recently, multi-modality transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) has increasingly become an effective tool for the guidance of prostate biopsies. With the aim of effectively…

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Accurate segmentation of the prostate is a key step in external beam radiation therapy treatments. In this paper, we tackle the challenging task of prostate segmentation in CT images by a two-stage network with 1) the first stage to fast…

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Accurate classification of breast ultrasound images into benign, malignant, and normal categories is a critical clinical task complicated by speckle noise, acoustic shadowing, and inter-class visual ambiguity. Existing deep learning methods…

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The size and geometry of the prostate are known to be pivotal quantities used by clinicians to assess the condition of the gland during prostate cancer screening. As an alternative to palpation, an increasing number of methods for…

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While microscopic analysis of histopathological slides is generally considered as the gold standard method for performing cancer diagnosis and grading, the current method for analysis is extremely time consuming and labour intensive as it…

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Prostate cancer (PCa) poses a significant threat to men's health, with early diagnosis being crucial for improving prognosis and reducing mortality rates. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) plays a vital role in the diagnosis and image-guided…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Haiqiao Wang , Hong Wu , Zhuoyuan Wang , Peiyan Yue , Dong Ni , Pheng-Ann Heng , Yi Wang

Prostate cancer is a highly prevalent cancer and ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men globally. Recently, the utilization of multi-modality transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) has gained significant traction as a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Hong Wu , Juan Fu , Hongsheng Ye , Yuming Zhong , Xuebin Zou , Jianhua Zhou , Yi Wang

Medical image classification has developed rapidly under the impetus of the convolutional neural network (CNN). Due to the fixed size of the receptive field of the convolution kernel, it is difficult to capture the global features of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-22 Xiangzuo Huo , Gang Sun , Shengwei Tian , Yan Wang , Long Yu , Jun Long , Wendong Zhang , Aolun Li

Deep neural networks have introduced significant advancements in the field of machine learning-based analysis of digital pathology images including prostate tissue images. With the help of transfer learning, classification and segmentation…

The diagnosis of prostate cancer increasingly depends on multimodal imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS). However, accurate registration between these modalities remains a fundamental…

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Capturing global contextual information plays a critical role in breast ultrasound (BUS) image classification. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated reliable performance in tumor classification, they have inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bryar Shareef , Min Xian , Aleksandar Vakanski , Haotian Wang

Breast cancer is a major global health concern. Pathologists face challenges in analyzing complex features from pathological images, which is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task. Therefore, efficient computer-based diagnostic tools…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Ayush Roy , Payel Pramanik , Sohom Ghosal , Daria Valenkova , Dmitrii Kaplun , Ram Sarkar

Automatic prostate segmentation in TRUS images has always been a challenging problem, since prostates in TRUS images have ambiguous boundaries and inhomogeneous intensity distribution. Although many prostate segmentation methods have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Mengqing Liu , Xiao Shao , Liping Jiang , Kaizhi Wu

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in men, and accurate identification of clinically significant PCa (csPCa) is critical for timely intervention. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is widely used for prostate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Zetian Feng , Juan Fu , Xuebin Zou , Hongsheng Ye , Hong Wu , Jianhua Zhou , Yi Wang

Fusing intra-operative 2D transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) image with pre-operative 3D magnetic resonance (MR) volume to guide prostate biopsy can significantly increase the yield. However, such a multimodal 2D/3D registration problem is a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-15 Hengtao Guo , Xuanang Xu , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

We propose Video-TransUNet, a deep architecture for instance segmentation in medical CT videos constructed by integrating temporal feature blending into the TransUNet deep learning framework. In particular, our approach amalgamates strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-23 Chengxi Zeng , Xinyu Yang , Majid Mirmehdi , Alberto M Gambaruto , Tilo Burghardt

Prostate cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths in men, where early detection greatly improves survival rates. Although MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy offers superior accuracy by combining MRI's detailed visualization with TRUS's…

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