Nowadays, prostate cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the most common type of cancer,
segmentation of prostate ultrasound images is a critical step in the detection and planning …

Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential
importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However …

Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed non-cutaneous malignant tumors
and the sixth major cause of cancer-related death generally found in men globally …

Medical imaging plays a vital role in the medical field because it is widely used in diseases
diagnosis and treatment of patients. There are different modalities of medical imaging such …

Objective: We present a new hybrid edge and region-based parametric deformable model,
or active surface, for prostate volume segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images …

The goal of this work was to develop a method for accurate and robust automatic
segmentation of the prostate clinical target volume in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images …

This paper, originally published on 12 March 2018, was replaced with a corrected/revised
version on 1 June 2018. If you downloaded the original PDF but are unable to access the …

In recent years, the incidence of prostate cancer in the male population has been increasing
year by year. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is an important means of prostate cancer …

Purpose Needle‐based procedures for diagnosing and treating prostate cancer, such as
biopsy and brachytherapy, have incorporated three‐dimensional (3D) transrectal ultrasound …

Prostate brachytherapy quality assessment procedure should be performed while the patient
is still on the operating table since this would enable physicians to implant additional seeds …