Object detection as an aid for locating the prostate in surface-based abdominal ultrasound images.

ABSTRACT: Automatic object detection is increasingly used in the medical field to enhance clinical workflows before, during, and after diagnosis of various conditions. One example is prostate detection and prostate volume estimation, which can aid in triaging patients for prostate cancer through risk-stratification using prostate-specific antigen density. In this paper, a baseline prostate detection framework is presented, highlighting that current state-of-the-art object detection models can detect the prostate in difficult to interpret surface-based ultrasound images. A 5-fold cross-validation study returned intersection-over-union, precision, recall, F1, and average-precision values above 0.7 with real-time capabilities possible. Additionally, a simple size calculation based on the detection resu

SUBMITTER: Bennett RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12728191 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature