Robert James Toth1, B. Nicholas Bloch2,
Elizabeth M. Genega3, Neil M. Rofsky3, Robert E.
Lenkinski3, Mark A. Rosen4, Anant Madabhushi1
1Biomedical Engineering,
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States; 2Boston
Medical Center, Bostom, MA, United States; 3Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States; 4Hospital at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
We present a method for using an advanced Active Shape Model based segmentation scheme to determine prostate volume on T2-weighted MR imagery. Our method was compared to the clinically standard ellipsoid technique and showed volume estimates more consistent with the ground truth volumes over 34 studies.