A decomposable model for the detection of prostate cancer in multi-parametric MRI
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Journal
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume
11071 LNCS
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-00934-2_103
Abstract
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018. Institutions that specialize in prostate MRI acquire different MR sequences owing to variability in scanning procedure and scanner hardware. We propose a novel prostate cancer detector that can operate in the absence of MR imaging sequences. Our novel prostate cancer detector first trains a forest of random ferns on all MR sequences and then decomposes these random ferns into a sum of MR sequence-specific random ferns enabling predictions to be made in the absence of one or more of these MR sequences. To accomplish this, we first show that a sum of random ferns can be exactly represented by another random fern and then we propose a method to approximately decompose an arbitrary random fern into a sum of random ferns. We show that our decomposed detector can maintain good performance when some MR sequences are omitted.
APA Citation
Lay, N., Tsehay, Y., Sumathipala, Y., Cheng, R., Gaur, S., Smith, C., Barbu, A., Lu, L., Turkbey, B., Choyke, P., Pinto, P., & Summers, R. (2018). A decomposable model for the detection of prostate cancer in multi-parametric MRI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11071 LNCS (). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00934-2_103
