Improving necrosis estimation in MR-guided prostate focused ultrasound ablations with a probabilistic thermal dose model

False positive necrosis classification close to ablation zones in magnetic resonance (MR)-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation of the prostate poses an issue for real-time assessment of the treatment. Typically, apriori knowledge about transducers is utilized to filter temperature maps, thereby reducing false positives. Our innovation, however, lies in the ability of our probabilistic CEM(43) thermal dose model (pCEM(43)) to decrease false positives without the need for prior knowledge…