Wu, X., Wang, Y., Yang, Q., Thorley, N., Punwani, S., Kasivisvanathan, V, Bonmati, E. and Hu, Y. 2025. AI-assisted prostate cancer detection and localisation on biparametric MR by classifying radiologist-positives. Medical Imaging 2025: Computer-Aided Diagnosis. San Diego 16 - 21 Feb 2025 SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3046521
| Title | AI-assisted prostate cancer detection and localisation on biparametric MR by classifying radiologist-positives |
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| Authors | Wu, X., Wang, Y., Yang, Q., Thorley, N., Punwani, S., Kasivisvanathan, V, Bonmati, E. and Hu, Y. |
| Type | Conference paper |
| Abstract | Prostate cancer diagnosis through MR imaging have currently relied on radiologists’ interpretation, whilst modern AI-based methods have been developed to detect clinically significant cancers independent of radiologists. In this study, we propose to develop deep learning models that improve the overall cancer diagnostic accuracy, by classifying radiologist-identified patients or lesions (i.e. radiologist-positives), as opposed to the existing models that are trained to discriminate over all patients. We develop a single voxel-level classification model, with a simple percentage threshold to determine positive cases, at levels of lesions, Barzell-zones and patients. Based on the presented experiments from two clinical data sets, consisting of histopathology-labelled MR images from more than 800 and 500 patients in the respective UCLA and UCL PROMIS studies, we show that the proposed strategy can improve the diagnostic accuracy, by augmenting the radiologist reading of the MR imaging. Among varying definition of clinical significance, the proposed strategy, for example, achieved a specificity of 44.1% (with AI assistance) from 36.3% (by radiologists alone), at a controlled sensitivity of 80.0% on the publicly available UCLA data set. This provides measurable clinical values in a range of applications such as reducing unnecessary biopsies, lowering cost in cancer screening and quantifying risk in therapies. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Conference | Medical Imaging 2025: Computer-Aided Diagnosis |
| Publisher | SPIE |
| Accepted author manuscript | File Access Level Open (open metadata and files) |
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| Published | 04 Apr 2025 |
| Journal citation | 13407 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3046521 |