Prostate segmentation and multimodal registration in 3D ultrasound images

• Main Author: Shao, Wei
• Other Authors: Ling Keck Voon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Control and instrumentation::Medical electronics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/43577
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Prostate cancer has been ranked as one of the leading causes of cancer death for men. This thesis addresses two important issues that arise in the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate cancer biopsy and treatment. The first is the prostate boundary detection in ultrasound images. In this wor...