Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35693032›Full record

ArticleCommunications medicine2022

Predicting biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer with artificial intelligence.

Hans Pinckaers, Jolique van Ipenburg, Jonathan Melamed, Angelo De Marzo, Elizabeth A Platz, Bram van Ginneken, Jeroen van der Laak, Geert Litjens

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Communications medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
33citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Immune Spatial Organization Predicts Distant Metastasis Risk in Aggressive Localized Prostate Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Review
  15. Article
  16. Review
  17. Review
  18. Article
  19. Article
  20. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Hans PinckaersDepartment of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-7570-9300
Jolique van IpenburgDepartment of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Jonathan MelamedDepartment of Pathology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2844-7990
Angelo De MarzoDepartments of Pathology, Urology and Oncology, The Brady Urological Research Institute and the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4847-5307
Elizabeth A PlatzDepartment of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3676-8954
Bram van GinnekenDepartment of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Jeroen van der LaakDepartment of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7982-0754
Geert LitjensDepartment of Pathology, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1554-1291

Funding

TRANSGENIC MODELS FOR PROSTATE CANCER AND AUTOIMMUNITYP50CA058236 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI DENMEADE, SAMUEL R · 1992 to 2020
$43.9M
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA058236
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: The first sign of metastatic prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy is rising PSA levels in the blood, termed biochemical recurrence. The prediction of recurrence relies mainly on the morphological assessment of prostate cancer using the Gleason grading system. However, in this system, within-grade morphological patterns and subtle histopathological features are currently omitted, leaving a significant amount of prognostic potential unexplored. Methods: To discover additional prognostic information using artificial intelligence, we trained a deep learning system to predict biochemical recurrence from tissue in H&E-stained microarray cores directly. We developed a morphological biomarker using convolutional neural networks leveraging a nested case-control study of 685 patients and validated on an independent cohort of 204 patients. We use concept-based explainability methods to interpret the learned tissue patterns. Results: The biomarker provides a strong correlation with biochemical recurrence in two sets ( Conclusions: These results show that the model finds predictive power in the tissue beyond the morphological ISUP grading.

Indexed as

EpidemiologyPrognostic markersProstateProstate cancer

Identifiers

PMID35693032
PMCPMC9177591

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.