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ArticleComputational intelligence and neuroscience2021

An Optimized Approach for Prostate Image Segmentation Using K-Means Clustering Algorithm with Elbow Method.

Rachid Sammouda, Ali El-Zaart

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Article in Computational intelligence and neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07461805 (Caracterización de Subgrupos de Personas Con Diabetes Tipo 1), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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NCT07461805 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Caracterización de Subgrupos de Personas Con Diabetes Tipo 1: análisis de características clínicas y glucométricas Utilizando Una aproximación de Inteligencia Artificial

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorFundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant PauRan2025 to 2028Enrolled800ConditionsType 1 Diabetes Mellitus
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 96 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Rachid SammoudaDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5227-7381
Ali El-ZaartDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1240-3785
Beirut Arab University · LBKing Saud University · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer disease is one of the common types that cause men's prostate damage all over the world. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) expressed by type-II is an extremely attractive style for imaging-based diagnosis of prostate cancer. Clinically, photodynamic therapy (PDT) is used as noninvasive therapy in treatment of several cancers and some other diseases. This paper aims to segment or cluster and analyze pixels of histological and near-infrared (NIR) prostate cancer images acquired by PSMA-targeting PDT low weight molecular agents. Such agents can provide image guidance to resection of the prostate tumors and permit for the subsequent PDT in order to remove remaining or noneradicable cancer cells. The color prostate image segmentation is accomplished using an optimized image segmentation approach. The optimized approach combines the k-means clustering algorithm with elbow method that can give better clustering of pixels through automatically determining the best number of clusters. Clusters' statistics and ratio results of pixels in the segmented images show the applicability of the proposed approach for giving the optimum number of clusters for prostate cancer analysis and diagnosis.

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ElbowProstatic NeoplasmsAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisHumansMale

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PMID34819951
PMCPMC8608531
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