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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2017
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Atilla Peter Kiraly, San Jose, CA (US);
Clement Jad Abi Nader, Antibes, FR;
Robert Grimm, Nürnberg, DE;
Berthold Kiefer, Erlangen, DE;
Ali Kamen, Skillman, NJ (US);
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automated prostate tumor detection and classification in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is disclosed. A multi-parametric MRI image set of a patient, including a plurality of different types of MRI images, is received. Simultaneous detection and classification of prostate tumors in the multi-parametric MRI image set of the patient are performed using a trained multi-channel image-to-image convolutional encoder-decoder that inputs multiple MRI images of the multi-parametric MRI image set of the patient and includes a plurality of output channels corresponding to a plurality of different tumor classes. For each output channel, the trained image-to image convolutional encoder-decoder generates a respective response map that provides detected locations of prostate tumors of the corresponding tumor class in the multi-parametric MRI image set of the patient.