It’s a minimally invasive procedure that uses directional ultrasound to produce very high temperatures to ablate or destroy targeted prostate tissue for prostate cancer. Dr. Sameer Siddiqui, SLU SOM ...

You have had an MRI of your prostate that has helped to identify areas of your prostate that do not look healthy. Your urologist would like to examine these areas further to check for the presence of ...

Performed under general anesthesia, the procedure involves inserting a small probe into the rectum. This probe emits the ultrasound waves that target the cancerous areas of the prostate.

Prostate biopsy and image-guided treatment procedures are often performed under the guidance of ultrasound fused with magnetic resonance images (MRI). Accurate image fusion relies on accurate ...

Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance for image-guided prostate interventions and treatment planning. However, developing such automatic ...

SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital (SLU-H) is the first and only hospital in Missouri and the larger Midwest region to perform a new innovative and less-invasive prostate cancer procedure. The ...

University researchers have developed a prostate ... ultrasound technology successfully detected tumours with an impressive 94% sensitivity rate in testing, and can complete the procedure in ...