3D segmentation of prostate ultrasound images using wavelet transform

Hamed Akbari; Xiaofeng Yang; Luma V. Halig; Baowei Fei

doi:10.1117/12.878072

14 March 2011 3D segmentation of prostate ultrasound images using wavelet transform

Hamed Akbari, Xiaofeng Yang, Luma V. Halig, Baowei Fei

Proceedings Volume 7962, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing; 79622K (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878072
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2011, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida, United States

Abstract

The current definitive diagnosis of prostate cancer is transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided biopsy. However, the current procedure is limited by using 2D biopsy tools to target 3D biopsy locations. This paper presents a new method for automatic segmentation of the prostate in three-dimensional transrectal ultrasound images, by extracting texture features and by statistically matching geometrical shape of the prostate. A set of Wavelet-based support vector machines (WSVMs) are located and trained at different regions of the prostate surface. The WSVMs capture texture priors of ultrasound images for classification of the prostate and non-prostate tissues in different zones around the prostate boundary. In the segmentation procedure, these W-SVMs are trained in three sagittal, coronal, and transverse planes. The pre-trained W-SVMs are employed to tentatively label each voxel around the surface of the model as a prostate or non-prostate voxel by the texture matching. The labeled voxels in three planes after post-processing is overlaid on a prostate probability model. The probability prostate model is created using 10 segmented prostate data. Consequently, each voxel has four labels: sagittal, coronal, and transverse planes and one probability label. By defining a weight function for each labeling in each region, each voxel is labeled as a prostate or non-prostate voxel. Experimental results by using real patient data show the good performance of the proposed model in segmenting the prostate from ultrasound images.

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Hamed Akbari, Xiaofeng Yang, Luma V. Halig, and Baowei Fei "3D segmentation of prostate ultrasound images using wavelet transform", Proc. SPIE 7962, Medical Imaging 2011: Image Processing, 79622K (14 March 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.878072

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