The United States of America, As Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services

Francesca Mertan

Ronald M Summers

Peter Choyke

Nathan S Lay

Baris Turkbey

Holger Roth

Matthew J McAuliffe

Sonia Gaur

Matthew Greer

Yohannes Tsehay

Ruida Cheng

Disclosed prostate computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems employ a Random Forest classifier to detect prostate cancer. System classify individual pixels inside the prostate as potential sites of cancer using a combination of spatial, intensity and texture features extracted from three sequences. The Random Forest training considers instance-level weighting for equal treatment of small and large cancerous lesions and small and large prostate backgrounds. Two other approaches are based on an AutoContext pipeline intended to make better use of sequence-specific patterns. Also disclosed are methods and systems for accurate automatic segmentation of the prostate in MRI. Methods can include both patch-based and holistic (image-to-image) deep learning methods for segmentation of the prostate. A patch-based convolutional network aims to refine the prostate contour given an initialization. A method for end- to-end prostate segmentation integrates holistically nested edge detection with fully convolutional networks. HNNs automatically learn a hierarchical representation that improve prostate boundary detection.

Detection of prostate cancer in multi-parametric MRI using random forest with instance weighting and MR prostate segmentation by deep learning with holistically-nested networks

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Francesca Mertan