Multi-atlas-based automatic 3D segmentation for prostate brachytherapy in transrectal ultrasound images.
Saman NouranianSeyedeh Sara MahdaviIngrid SpadingerWilliam J. MorrisSeptimiu E. SalcudeanPurang AbolmaesumiPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2013)
Keyphrases
- transrectal ultrasound
- prostate segmentation
- prostate brachytherapy
- segmentation method
- fully automatic
- segmentation algorithm
- patient specific
- image analysis
- automated segmentation
- input image
- segmented images
- edge detection
- prostate cancer
- deformable models
- intraoperative
- image segmentation
- image data
- region growing
- segmentation accuracy
- three dimensional
- needle insertion
- texture information
- robot assisted
- segmentation result
- shape prior
- medical image analysis
- speckle noise
- clinical applications
- image registration
- image guided
- gray level
- level set
- energy function
- automatic segmentation
- ultrasound images