On the use of spectral clustering for prostate tissue characterization

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Abstract

Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed malignancy in men over the age of fifty. Trans-Rectal Ultra-Sound (TRUS) is among the routine tests that are used for prostate cancer diagnosis as well as for directing prostate biopsy. To identify suspicious cancerous regions, TRUS images are usually segmented manually by an expert radiologist which can be a laborious process. In this paper, we investigate the use of spectral clustering for identifying suspicious cancerous regions in prostate TRUS images. Our preliminary results confirm that there is a high correlation between the desired segmentation and the second smallest eigenvector of the affinity matrix of the TRUS image.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages979-982
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)1424400384, 9781424400386
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06 - Ottawa, ON, Canada
Duration: 7 May 200610 May 2006

Publication series

NameCanadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering
ISSN (Print)0840-7789

Conference

Conference2006 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE'06
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityOttawa, ON
Period7/05/0610/05/06

Keywords

  • Prostate cancer
  • Spectral clustering
  • Tissue characterization
  • TRUS

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