My topic of PhD research is "Computer Aided Detection of Prostate Cancer from MRI Images using Machine Intelligence Techniques". From where do I have to start prostate segmentation? Does registration has to be done before segmentation or is it optional? Are there any open source codes available for learning the existing methods of prostate segmentation?
Yes registration is an essential step.
You can follow the MICCAI Grand Challenge: Prostate MR Image Segmentation. There you can download MR data as well as recent results and works done by other researchers. It was 2012 challenge, however this topic still a hot topic in medical image segmentation.
Some useful links are below:
http://promise12.grand-challenge.org/
https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/display/Public/NCI-ISBI+2013+Challenge+-+Automated+Segmentation+of+Prostate+Structures
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841513001734
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23039673
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00695557/document
Hi Bejoy,
If you are able to post an example image or dataset, we may be able to put together a recipe file for you in our new extended free trial software MIPAR (http://MIPAR.us) that should at the very least make you aware of the processing techniques involved in prostate segmentation if you need to track down open source codes yourself.
Cheers,
John
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