Atlas based AAM and SVM model for fully automatic MRI prostate segmentation

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2014:2014:2881-5. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944225.

Abstract

Automatic prostate segmentation in MR images is a challenging task due to inter-patient prostate shape and texture variability, and the lack of a clear prostate boundary. We propose a supervised learning framework that combines the atlas based AAM and SVM model to achieve a relatively high segmentation result of the prostate boundary. The performance of the segmentation is evaluated with cross validation on 40 MR image datasets, yielding an average segmentation accuracy near 90%.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Male
  • Prostate / pathology*
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Support Vector Machine