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ArticleBJUI compass2026

Ludovica Cella, Marco Paciotti, Giacomo Cavadini, Luca Di Stefano, Pier Paolo Avolio, Vittorio Fasulo, Andrea Piccolini, Cesare Saitta, Edoardo Beatrici, Rafal Kocielnik and 6 more

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Article in BJUI compass, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Ludovica CellaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0399-2395
Marco PaciottiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8456-6495
Giacomo CavadiniHumanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Luca Di StefanoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Pier Paolo AvolioDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Vittorio FasuloDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Andrea PiccoliniDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6601-1244
Cesare SaittaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Edoardo BeatriciDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.
Rafal KocielnikCedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles California USA.
Andrew J HungCedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles California USA.
Alberto SaitaDepartment of Urology IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano, Milan Italy.
Paolo CasaleDepartment of Urology IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano, Milan Italy.
Massimo LazzeriDepartment of Urology IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital Rozzano, Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4411-3715
Giovanni LughezzaniDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3939-4521
Nicolò Maria BuffiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences Humanitas University Pieve Emanuele Milan Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to develop and evaluate MUSeg-PSV, a real-time deep-learning framework for segmentation of the prostate gland and seminal vesicles on 29-MHz micro-ultrasound (MicroUS), intended to support anatomical orientation during MicroUS-guided prostate biopsy and local staging of prostate cancer. Patients and methods: MicroUS data from 14 patients (21 full-length videos; 2588 annotated frames) were used to train and test MUSeg-PSV, a lightweight single-stage convolutional model based on YOLOv11s-seg. Two training strategies were compared: a standard configuration with basic augmentations and an augmentation-rich configuration incorporating advanced spatial and photometric transformations. Model performance was assessed on a held-out test set using mean average precision (mAP), dice similarity coefficient (DSC), expected calibration error (ECE) and Brier score. Real-time feasibility was evaluated through inference latency and qualitative assessment of temporal consistency on unseen videos. Results: The augmentation-rich model outperformed the standard configuration, yielding a 21% relative increase in mAP and a 4.6-fold improvement in seminal vesicle AP (0.183 → 0.842). Prostate DSC increased from 0.675 to 0.770 ( Conclusion: MUSeg-PSV enables reliable, real-time multiclass segmentation of high-frequency MicroUS, providing stable delineation of the prostate and seminal vesicles at clinically viable frame rates. These results support the potential of AI-assisted MicroUS to enhance operator orientation during MicroUS-guided prostate biopsy and local staging, and to promote standardised identification of seminal vesicles within prostate cancer diagnostic and staging workflows.

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artificial intelligencedeep learningmicro‐ultrasoundMicroUSreal‐time segmentation

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PMID42255326
PMCPMC13239491

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