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ReviewJournal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine2025

Computational Nuclear Oncology Toward Precision Radiopharmaceutical Therapies: Current Tools, Techniques, and Uncharted Territories.

Tahir Yusufaly, Emilie Roncali, Julia Brosch-Lenz, Carlos Uribe, Abhinav K Jha, Geoffrey Currie, Joyita Dutta, Georges El-Fakhri, Helena McMeekin, Neeta Pandit-Taskar and 6 more

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Review in Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Applications of artificial intelligence in nuclear medicine.Zeitschrift fur medizinische Physik · 2026
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  10. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Theranostics.Journal of nuclear medicine technology · 2025
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  14. AI in SPECT Imaging: Opportunities and Challenges.Seminars in nuclear medicine · 2025
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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

16 authors.

Tahir YusufalyDivision of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; tyusufa2@jhmi.edu.
Emilie RoncaliDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, California.
Julia Brosch-LenzInstitute of Nuclear Medicine, Glen Burnie, Maryland.
Carlos UribeDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Abhinav K JhaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering and Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Geoffrey CurrieSchool of Dentistry and Medical Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.
Joyita DuttaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Georges El-FakhriDepartment of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Helena McMeekinHermes Medical Solutions, London, United Kingdom.
Neeta Pandit-TaskarDepartment of Radiology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Jazmin SchwartzDepartment of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
Kuangyu ShiDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Lidia StrigariDepartment of Medical Physics, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Habib ZaidiDivision of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
Babak SabouryUnited Theranostics, Bethesda, Maryland; and.
Arman RahmimDepartment of Radiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
Staff InvestigatorsP30CA093373 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS · PI KC KENT LLOYD · 2002 to 2026
$84.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS P30 CA093373
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiopharmaceutical therapy (RPT), with its targeted delivery of cytotoxic ionizing radiation, demonstrates significant potential for treating a wide spectrum of malignancies, with particularly unique benefits for metastatic disease. There is an opportunity to optimize RPTs and enhance the precision of theranostics by moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach and using patient-specific image-based dosimetry for personalized treatment planning. Such an approach, however, requires accurate methods and tools for the mathematic modeling and prediction of dose and clinical outcome. To this end, the SNMMI AI-Dosimetry Working Group is promoting the paradigm of computational nuclear oncology: mathematic models and computational tools describing the hierarchy of etiologic mechanisms involved in RPT dose response. This includes radiopharmacokinetics for image-based internal dosimetry and radiobiology for the mapping of dose response to clinical endpoints. The former area originates in pharmacotherapy, whereas the latter originates in radiotherapy. Accordingly, models and methods developed in these predecessor disciplines serve as a foundation on which to develop a repurposed set of tools more appropriate to RPT. Over the long term, this computational nuclear oncology framework also promises to facilitate widespread cross-fertilization of ideas between nuclear medicine and the greater mathematic and computational oncology communities.

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Nuclear MedicinePrecision MedicineRadiopharmaceuticalsHumansNeoplasmsRadiometryRadiopharmaceuticalsartificial intelligencecomputational nuclear oncologydosimetryradiobiologyradionuclide therapytheranostic digital twin

Identifiers

PMID39947910
PMCPMC11960611

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