Title
Automatic high resolution segmentation of the prostate from multi-planar MRI
Abstract
Individualized and accurate segmentations of the prostate are essential for diagnosis as well as therapy planning in prostate cancer (PCa). Most of the previously proposed prostate segmentation approaches rely purely on axial MRI scans, which suffer from low out-of-plane resolution. We propose a method that makes use of sagittal and coronal MRI scans to improve the accuracy of segmentation. These scans are typically acquired as standard of care for PCa staging, but are generally ignored by the segmentation algorithms. Our method is based on a multi-stream 3D convolutional neural network for the automatic extraction of isotropic high resolution segmentations from MR images. We evaluated segmentation performance on an isotropic high resolution ground truth (n = 40 subjects). The results show that the use of multi-planar volumes for prostate segmentation leads to improved segmentation results not only for the whole prostate (92.1% Dice similarity coefficient), but also in apex and base regions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ISBI.2018.8363549
2018 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2018)
Keywords
Field
DocType
MRI,prostate segmentation,deep convolutional neural networks,multi-stream architecture,multi-planar segmentation,3D planning,3D model generation
Computer vision,Coronal plane,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Segmentation,Planar,Ground truth,Prostate cancer,Artificial intelligence,Prostate,Sagittal plane
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1945-7928
978-1-5386-3637-4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anneke Meyer152.13
Alireza Mehrtash2445.69
Marko Rak3318.37
Daniel Schindele421.39
Martin Schostak520.71
Clare M Tempany662945.11
Tina Kapur739045.30
Purang Abolmaesumi8951111.52
Andriy Fedorov917116.54
Christian Hansen1019131.27