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ReviewSurgery in practice and science2026

The role of artificial intelligence in advancing urologic care: From diagnostics to therapeutics.

Sina Samenezhad, Dorna Rafighi

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Review in Surgery in practice and science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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.

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

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

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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

2 authors.

Sina SamenezhadUrology Department, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, , Iran.
Dorna RafighiDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually altering urology by improving diagnostic precision, prognostic evaluation, and therapy decisions in a broad spectrum of urologic diseases. Utilizing machine learning, deep learning, and radiomics, applications of AI have exhibited promise in enhancing cancer identification, stratification, and therapy response prediction, especially in prostate, bladder, and kidney cancers. Beyond cancer therapy, AI enables individually tailored care for benign diseases like benign prostatic hyperplasia, urolithiasis, Functional Urology even in pediatrics by enhancing diagnostic ability and outcome prediction. Heterogeneity of data, model explainability, ethical issues, and lack of prospective validation constrain incorporation into everyday practice. This review summarizes current applications and discusses methodological and ethical limitation, and defines future directions toward enhancing multidisciplinary interaction, standardization across datasets, and prudent implementation. Eventually, AI provides large-scale opportunity to transform urologic care by facilitating individually tailored, expedient, and equitable patient care.

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Artificial intelligenceBPHMachine learningoncologyRadiomicsUrology

Identifiers

PMID41561314
PMCPMC12813352

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