Interactive Outlining of Pancreatic Cancer Liver Metastases in Ultrasound Images.

ABSTRACT: Ultrasound (US) is the most commonly used liver imaging modality worldwide. Due to its low cost, it is increasingly used in the follow-up of cancer patients with metastases localized in the liver. In this contribution, we present the results of an interactive segmentation approach for liver metastases in US acquisitions. A (semi-) automatic segmentation is still very challenging because of the low image quality and the low contrast between the metastasis and the surrounding liver tissue. Thus, the state of the art in clinical practice is still manual measurement and outlining of the metastases in the US images. We tackle the problem by providing an interactive segmentation approach providing real-time feedback of the segmentation results. The approach has been evaluated with typical US acq

SUBMITTER: Egger J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5429849 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature