Bladder wall thickness mapping for tumor detection

A method for detection of a bladder wall tumor, the method comprising:

• creating, by magnetic resonance imaging, a plurality of layers of a bladder wall, wherein a group of voxels having a lowest intensity is identified in one layer of the plurality of layers from a T1-weighted MRI image;
• utilizing an energy function modification to enlarge the one layer of the bladder wall;
• utilizing a partial volume image segmentation to obtain tissue type mixture percentages in each voxel near an inner border and an outer border of the bladder wall in the one layer of the bladder wall and obtaining a bladder wall thickness;
• obtaining a range of uncertainty at the inner border and at the outer border of the bladder wall;
• and
• integrating, over the range of uncertainty, the bladder wall thickness along a path starting at a point on the outer border of the bladder and ending at a corresponding point on the inner border of the bladder, wherein the path is constrained by a local shape between the two points.