Monte Carlo despeckling of transrectal ultrasound images of the prostate.
Alexander WongJacob ScharcanskiPublished in: Digit. Signal Process. (2012)
Keyphrases
- monte carlo
- prostate segmentation
- transrectal ultrasound
- patient specific
- speckle noise
- ultrasound images
- prostate cancer
- prostate gland
- automated segmentation
- input image
- image data
- edge detection
- deformable models
- markov chain
- prostate biopsy
- speckle reduction
- image analysis
- image guided
- prostate brachytherapy
- sar images
- visual inspection
- edge preserving
- contrast enhancement
- mr images
- texture information
- segmentation algorithm
- low contrast
- segmentation method
- registration accuracy
- magnetic resonance
- target registration error
- noise reduction