Registration-Enhanced Segmentation Method for Prostate Cancer in Ultrasound Images

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Hauptverfasser: Sang, Shengtian, Jahanandish, Hassan, Li, Cynthia Xinran, Bhattachary, Indrani, Lee, Jeong Hoon, Zhang, Lichun, Vesal, Sulaiman, Ghanouni, Pejman, Fan, Richard, Sonn, Geoffrey A., Rusu, Mirabela
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author Sang, Shengtian
Jahanandish, Hassan
Li, Cynthia Xinran
Bhattachary, Indrani
Lee, Jeong Hoon
Zhang, Lichun
Vesal, Sulaiman
Ghanouni, Pejman
Fan, Richard
Sonn, Geoffrey A.
Rusu, Mirabela
author_facet Sang, Shengtian
Jahanandish, Hassan
Li, Cynthia Xinran
Bhattachary, Indrani
Lee, Jeong Hoon
Zhang, Lichun
Vesal, Sulaiman
Ghanouni, Pejman
Fan, Richard
Sonn, Geoffrey A.
Rusu, Mirabela
contents Prostate cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths in men, where early detection greatly improves survival rates. Although MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy offers superior accuracy by combining MRI's detailed visualization with TRUS's real-time guidance, it is a complex and time-intensive procedure that relies heavily on manual annotations, leading to potential errors. To address these challenges, we propose a fully automatic MRI-TRUS fusion-based segmentation method that identifies prostate tumors directly in TRUS images without requiring manual annotations. Unlike traditional multimodal fusion approaches that rely on naive data concatenation, our method integrates a registration-segmentation framework to align and leverage spatial information between MRI and TRUS modalities. This alignment enhances segmentation accuracy and reduces reliance on manual effort. Our approach was validated on a dataset of 1,747 patients from Stanford Hospital, achieving an average Dice coefficient of 0.212, outperforming TRUS-only (0.117) and naive MRI-TRUS fusion (0.132) methods, with significant improvements (p $<$ 0.01). This framework demonstrates the potential for reducing the complexity of prostate cancer diagnosis and provides a flexible architecture applicable to other multimodal medical imaging tasks.
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spellingShingle Registration-Enhanced Segmentation Method for Prostate Cancer in Ultrasound Images
Sang, Shengtian
Jahanandish, Hassan
Li, Cynthia Xinran
Bhattachary, Indrani
Lee, Jeong Hoon
Zhang, Lichun
Vesal, Sulaiman
Ghanouni, Pejman
Fan, Richard
Sonn, Geoffrey A.
Rusu, Mirabela
Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Prostate cancer is a major cause of cancer-related deaths in men, where early detection greatly improves survival rates. Although MRI-TRUS fusion biopsy offers superior accuracy by combining MRI's detailed visualization with TRUS's real-time guidance, it is a complex and time-intensive procedure that relies heavily on manual annotations, leading to potential errors. To address these challenges, we propose a fully automatic MRI-TRUS fusion-based segmentation method that identifies prostate tumors directly in TRUS images without requiring manual annotations. Unlike traditional multimodal fusion approaches that rely on naive data concatenation, our method integrates a registration-segmentation framework to align and leverage spatial information between MRI and TRUS modalities. This alignment enhances segmentation accuracy and reduces reliance on manual effort. Our approach was validated on a dataset of 1,747 patients from Stanford Hospital, achieving an average Dice coefficient of 0.212, outperforming TRUS-only (0.117) and naive MRI-TRUS fusion (0.132) methods, with significant improvements (p $<$ 0.01). This framework demonstrates the potential for reducing the complexity of prostate cancer diagnosis and provides a flexible architecture applicable to other multimodal medical imaging tasks.
title Registration-Enhanced Segmentation Method for Prostate Cancer in Ultrasound Images
topic Image and Video Processing
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00712