Study design

multicenter study

Study time

2017-2018

Country

Germany

Object

Patients from five institutions were included in this study. Those in the case group underwent mpMRI and had subsequent prostate biopsy results positive for adenocarcinoma and then underwent radical prostatectomy. All participants in the control group underwent mpMRI with no visible lesions detected.

Inclusion criteria

Three patients with missing fil radical prostatectomy histopathologic lesion maps were excluded. 

Sample size

236

Topic classification

AI，MRI，Focus on RARP

Keypoint

Overall sensitivity was only minimally improved by use of the AI system. Significant improvement was achieved, however, in the detection of transition zone lesions with use of the AI system at the cost of a mean of 40 seconds of additiol reading time.

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