Comparison of predictive models for staging prostate cancer

Author

Rodriguez, Juan ; Ruiz, Jose Luis ; Sabater-Navarro, Jose M. ; Lopez, Luis M. ; Perez, C. ; Pinto, Maria L.

Author_Institution

Neuroengineering Res. Group, Miguel Hernandez Univ. of Elche, Elche, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

521

Abstract

This work presents a comparison between different predictive models with the aim of making the diagnosis and staging of prostate cancer in an automatic way. Nowadays, the estimations of size, localization and extension (stage) of the disease are made using the knowledge of previous cases. This paper presents an easy tool that allows using this information to have a new software application to predict the staging of the disease and to store the data. Besides, the application improves the present visualization tools for the prostate cancer, as in 2D visualization as a 3D volume.

Keywords

biological organs; biomedical MRI; cancer; graphical user interfaces; image fusion; image reconstruction; medical image processing; multilayer perceptrons; tumours; 2D visualization; 3D reconstruction; 3D volume; GUI; MRI; graphic user interface; image fusion; mathematical models; multilayer perceptron; predictive models; prostate cancer; software application; tumors; Biopsy; Data visualization; Databases; Prostate cancer; Three dimensional displays; Tumors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2010 3rd IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

2155-1774

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7708-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5628048

Filename

5628048