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A Novel Image-Based Approach for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Using DCE-MRI

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A novel noninvasive approach for early diagnosis of prostate cancer from dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) is proposed. The proposed approach consists of four main steps. The first step is to isolate the prostate from the surrounding anatomical structures based on a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimate of a log-likelihood function that accounts for the shape priori, the spatial interaction, and the current appearance of the prostate tissues and its background (surrounding anatomical structures). In the second step, a nonrigid registration algorithm is employed to account for any local deformation that could occur in the prostate during the scanning process due to patient breathing and local motion. In the third step, the perfusion curves that show propagation of the contrast agent into the tissue are obtained from the segmented prostate of the whole image sequence of the patient. In the final step, we collect two features from these curves and use a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier to distinguish between malignant and benign detected tumors. Moreover, in this chapter we introduce a new approach to generate color maps that illustrate the propagation of the contrast agent in the prostate tissues based on the analysis of the 3D spatial interaction of the change of the gray-level values of prostate voxel using a generalized Gauss–Markov random field (GGMRF) image model. Finally, the tumor boundaries are determined using a level set deformable model controlled by the perfusion information and the spatial interactions between the prostate voxels. Experimental results on 30 clinical DCE-MRI data sets yield promising results.

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  1. BioImaging Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, 304 Lutz Building, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA

    Ahmad Firjani, Fahmi Khalifa, Ahmad Elnakib & Ayman El-Baz

  2. Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 40292, USA

    Ahmad Firjani & Adel Elmaghraby

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Georgy Gimel’farb

  4. Radiology Department, Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, 35516, Egypt

    Mohammed Abou El-Ghar

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Firjani, A. et al. (2014). A Novel Image-Based Approach for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer Using DCE-MRI. In: Suzuki, K. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Imaging. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7245-2_3

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