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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2010 Feb 5;57(5):1158–1166. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2037491

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Major challenges for segmentation of prostate boundaries from TRUS images. (a) Low SNR. (b) Large intensity variation inside of the prostate, and similarity between prostate and nonprostate tissues. (c) Shadow artifact where no boundary is available.