A Deep Learning Approach for Real Time Prostate Segmentation in Freehand Ultrasound Guided Biopsy

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men; each year there are approximately 1.6 million new cases diagnosed worldwide  Fitzmaurice et al. (2017). The established, widely available, standard diagnostic tool for prostate cancer is transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided biopsy Verma et al. (2017), which involves obtaining around 12 prostate tissue samples using a systematic, yet, non-targeted approach. This scheme i s blind to individual patient intraprostatic pathology, and has a high rate of false negatives.
Source: Medical Image Analysis - Category: Radiology Authors: Source Type: research