Ultrasonic multifeature tissue characterization for prostate diagnostics.

A new system for prostate diagnostics based on multifeature tissue characterization is proposed. Radiofrequency (RF) ultrasonic echo data are acquired during the standard transrectal ultrasound (US) imaging examination. Nine spectral, texture, first order and morphologic parameters are calculated and fed into two adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (FIS) working in parallel.