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ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022

Semi-Automatic Prostate Segmentation From Ultrasound Images Using Machine Learning and Principal Curve Based on Interpretable Mathematical Model Expression.

Tao Peng, Caiyin Tang, Yiyun Wu, Jing Cai

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Article in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Tao PengDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Caiyin TangDepartment of Medical Imaging, Taizhou People's Hospital, Taizhou, China.
Yiyun WuDepartment of Medical Technology, Jiangsu Province Hospital, Nanjing, China.
Jing CaiDepartment of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

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Abstract

Accurate prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is a challenging problem due to the low contrast of TRUS images and the presence of imaging artifacts such as speckle and shadow regions. To address this issue, we propose a semi-automatic model termed Hybrid Segmentation Model (H-SegMod) for prostate Region of Interest (ROI) segmentation in TRUS images. H-SegMod contains two cascaded stages. The first stage is to obtain the vertices sequences based on an improved principal curve-based model, where a few radiologist-selected seed points are used as prior. The second stage is to find a map function for describing the smooth prostate contour based on an improved machine learning model. Experimental results show that our proposed model achieved superior segmentation results compared with several other state-of-the-art models, achieving an average Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), Jaccard Similarity Coefficient (Ω), and Accuracy (ACC) of 96.5%, 95.2%, and 96.3%, respectively.

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accurate prostate segmentationconstraint closed polygonal segment modelimproved differential evolution-based methodinterpretable mathematical model expressionmachine learningprincipal curvetransrectal ultrasound

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