Author:
Li Bochong,Oka Ryo,Xuan Ping,Yoshimura Yuichiro,Nakaguchi Toshiya
Abstract
The role of multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) is becoming increasingly important in the diagnosis of the clinical severity of prostate cancer (PCa). However, mp-MRI images usually contain several unaligned 3D sequences, such as DWI image sequences and T2-weighted image sequences, and there are many images among the entirety of 3D sequence images that do not contain cancerous tissue, which affects the accuracy of large-scale prostate cancer detection. Therefore, there is a great need for a method that uses accurate computer-aided detection of mp-MRI images and minimizes the influence of useless features. Our proposed PCa detection method is divided into three stages: (i) multimodal image alignment, (ii) automatic cropping of the sequence images to the entire prostate region, and, finally, (iii) combining multiple modal images of each patient into novel 3D sequences and using 3D convolutional neural networks to learn the newly composed 3D sequences with different modal alignments. We arrange the different modal methods to make the model fully learn the cancerous tissue features; then, we predict the clinical severity of PCa and generate a 3D cancer response map for the 3D sequence images from the last convolution layer of the network. The prediction results and 3D response map help to understand the features that the model focuses on during the process of 3D-CNN feature learning. We applied our method to Toho hospital prostate cancer patient data; the AUC (=0.85) results were significantly higher than those of other methods.
Subject
Computational Mathematics,Computational Theory and Mathematics,Numerical Analysis,Theoretical Computer Science
Cited by
2 articles.
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