Segmentation of prostate biopsy needles in transrectal ultrasound images.
Dagmar KreftingBarbara HauptThomas TolxdorffCarsten KempkensteffenKurt MillerPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2007)
Keyphrases
- transrectal ultrasound
- prostate segmentation
- prostate biopsy
- image guided
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- prostate cancer
- automated segmentation
- image analysis
- image data
- patient specific
- soft tissue
- edge detection
- medical images
- medical imaging
- image segmentation
- deformable models
- input image
- fully automatic
- segmentation accuracy
- segmentation result
- region growing
- texture information
- prostate brachytherapy
- image registration
- image processing
- magnetic resonance
- shape prior
- level set
- object segmentation
- imaging modalities