Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2010 3rd IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7708-1
DOI :
10.1109/BIOROB.2010.5628048