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http://dx.doi.org/10.9728/dcs.2016.17.6.603

Delineating the Prostate Boundary on TRUS Image Using Predicting the Texture Features and its Boundary Distribution  

Park, Sunhwa (Gyeongsang National University, Dept. of Computer Science and Graduate School of CCBM)
Kim, Hoyong (Youngjin College, School of Computer Information)
Seo, Yeong Geon (Gyeongsang National University, Dept. of Computer Science and Graduate School of CCBM)
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Journal of Digital Contents Society / v.17, no.6, 2016 , pp. 603-611 More about this Journal
Abstract
Generally, the doctors manually delineated the prostate boundary seeing the image by their eyes, but the manual method not only needed quite much time but also had different boundaries depending on doctors. To reduce the effort like them the automatic delineating methods are needed, but detecting the boundary is hard to do since there are lots of uncertain textures or speckle noises. There have been studied in SVM, SIFT, Gabor texture filter, snake-like contour, and average-shape model methods. Besides, there were lots of studies about 2 and 3 dimension images and CT and MRI. But no studies have been developed superior to human experts and they need additional studies. For this, this paper proposes a method that delineates the boundary predicting its texture features and its average distribution on the prostate image. As result, we got the similar boundary as the method of human experts.
Keywords
boundary distribution; texture feature; prostate; prostate boundary; ultrasound image;
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