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‹ Sun · 7 Jun 2026
Promising but preliminary

[18F]PSMA-3Q PET/CT radiomics at 45% SUVmax threshold: predicting post-surgical ISUP grade ≥4 and extraprostatic extension for noninvasive stratification in prostate cancer management

Advanced imaging analysis can predict which prostate cancers are more likely aggressive before surgery, helping guide personalized treatment planning.

A multi-algorithm radiomics analysis of 243 prostate cancer PET/CT scans identifies the 45% SUVmax threshold as optimal for predicting high-grade disease and extraprostatic extension, with AUC of 0.917, outperforming PET-only or clinical-only approaches. Findings support potential preoperative precision stratification of prostate cancer, pending larger multicenter external validation.

What the study was

Study design
Retrospective; n=243 prostate cancer patients (training n=190, test n=53); 9 ML algorithms; train/test split chronological; evaluation of AUC, sensitivity, specificity
Population
Prostate cancer patients undergoing [18F]PSMA-3Q PET/CT before radical prostatectomy
Sample size
243
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Cancer Imaging

Why it surfaced

Novel [18F]PSMA-3Q PET/CT radiomics model with competitive AUC (0.917) for preoperative prostate cancer grading. Score limited by modest sample size (n=243) and lack of external multicenter validation.

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