Tissue characterization of the prostate using Kohonen-maps
Georg Schmitz, H. Ermert, Senge · 1994
Although transrectal ultrasound is one of the most important tools in the diagnosis and early detection of prostatic cancer, the sensitivity and specificity of the standard sonographic methods are still insufficient. We describe a method which provides the clinician with additional information in the form of color-coded tissue characterization images based on the learning vector quantization (LVQ) algorithm proposed by Kohonen