Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) of prostate cancer (PCa) using multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) has recently gained great research interest. In this work, a fully automatic CAD pipeline of PCa using mp-MRI data is presented. In order to fully explore the mp-MRI data, we systematically investigate three multi-modal medical image fusion strategies in convolutional neural networks, namely input-level fusion, feature-level fusion, and decision-level fusion. Extensive experiments are conducted on two datasets with different PCa-related diagnostic tasks. We identify a pipeline that works relatively the best for both diagnostic tasks, two important components of which are stacking three adjacent slices as the input and performing decision-level fusion with specific loss weights. Clinical relevance- This work provides a practical method for automated diagnosis of PCa based on multi-parametric MRI.

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