ReviewCancers2021
Characterisation of Prostate Lesions Using Transrectal Shear Wave Elastography (SWE) Ultrasound Imaging: A Systematic Review.
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- Clinical study of renal damage in patients with Type-1 diabetic nephropathy based on shear wave elastography and hemodynamics.Pakistan journal of medical sciences · 2025Article
- ProCUSNet: Prostate Cancer Detection on B-mode Transrectal Ultrasound Using Artificial Intelligence for Targeting During Prostate Biopsies.European urology oncology · 2025Article
- Multiparametric Ultrasound Imaging of Prostate Cancer Using Deep Neural Networks.Ultrasound in medicine & biology · 2024Article
- Research on the mean maximum Young's modulus value as a new diagnostic parameter for prostate cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A prospective study on using shear wave elastography to predict the ypT0 stage of rectal cancer after neoadjuvant therapy: a new support for the watch-and-wait approach?Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Article
- Diagnostic accuracy of multiparametric ultrasound in the diagnosis of prostate cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis.Insights into imaging · 2023Review
- Diagnostic value of endobronchial ultrasound elastography in differentiating between benign and malignant hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes: a retrospective study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Clinical Trial Protocol: Developing an Image Classification Algorithm for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis on Three-dimensional Multiparametric Transrectal Ultrasound.European urology open science · 2023Article
- Quantitative Assessment of Breast-Tumor Stiffness Using Shear-Wave Elastography Histograms.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- [Image-guided biopsy of the prostate gland].Urologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2022Article
- Artificial Intelligence System for Predicting Prostate Cancer Lesions from Shear Wave Elastography Measurements.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Article
- [Sonography of the prostate : Relevance for urologists in daily clinical routine].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2022Review
- The challenge of prostate biopsy guidance in the era of mpMRI detected lesion: ultrasound-guided versus in-bore biopsy.The British journal of radiology · 2022Review
- Multiparametric ultrasound of prostate: role in prostate cancer diagnosis.Therapeutic advances in urologyReview
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Abstract
backgroundultrasound-based shear wave elastography (SWE) can non-invasively assess prostate tissue stiffness. This systematic review aims to evaluate SWE for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa) and compare diagnostic estimates between studies reporting the detection of all PCa and clinically significant PCa (csPCa).
methodsa literature search was performed using the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, ClinicalTrials.gov, and CINAHL databases. Studies evaluating SWE for the detection of PCa using histopathology as reference standard were included.
results16 studies including 2277 patients were included for review. Nine studies evaluated SWE for the detection of PCa using systematic biopsy as a reference standard at the per-sample level, with a pooled sensitivity and specificity of 0.85 (95% CI = 0.74-0.92) and 0.85 (95% CI = 0.75-0.91), respectively. Five studies evaluated SWE for the detection of PCa using histopathology of radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens as the reference standard, with a pooled sensitivity and specificity of 0.71 (95% CI = 0.55-0.83) and 0.74 (95% CI = 0.42-0.92), respectively. Sub-group analysis revealed a higher pooled sensitivity (0.77 vs. 0.62) and specificity (0.84 vs. 0.53) for detection of csPCa compared to all PCa among studies using RP specimens as the reference standard.
conclusionSWE is an attractive imaging modality for the detection of PCa.
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