Award Date

1-1-2002

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Committee Member

Evangelos A. Yfantis

Number of Pages

128

Abstract

Our purpose is to aid medical doctors in prostate cancer detection via computer automated analysis of prostatic ultrasound imagery. Absorption of ultrasound signals is different in cancerous areas than in non-cancerous areas. The energy of the signal, the continuity of the signal, the autocorrelation function and frequency domain properties of prostatic ultrasound images are different in normal tissue than in cancerous tissue; This thesis presents an algorithm for automated cancer recognition in prostatic ultrasound imagery. Statistical and morphological based models are employed to classify regions of ultrasound imagery as either cancerous or non-cancerous. Application of our algorithm onto a limited set of cancerous and non-cancerous ultrasound images shows that our method has the ability to recognize cancer in cancerous ultrasound images. Misclassification occurs when cancerous tissue is classified as non-cancerous and noncancerous tissue is classified as cancerous. Occurrences of misclassification have been observed and investigated. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

Keywords

Cancer; Images; Prostate; Recognition; Ultrasound

Controlled Subject

Computer science; Oncology; Diagnostic imaging

File Format

pdf

File Size

2764.8 KB

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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