arXiv:2607.13506cs.CV2026-07

无需病变分割,通过多期MRI预测前列腺癌进展

TRACE-PCa: Predicting Prostate Cancer Progression from Longitudinal MRI During Active Surveillance

论文配图:TRACE-PCa: Predicting Prostate Cancer Progression from Longitudinal MRI During Active Surveillance
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 用3D MRI基础模型编码多时相影像,结合时序注意力门捕捉变化
  • 在队列中表现优于基线模型,负预测值高,可减少不必要的活检
  • 适合临床医生用于主动监测期间风险评估,尤其无可见病灶患者

主动监测(AS)是低危前列腺癌的首选策略,但现有方案依赖定期重复活检,多数未发现进展且为多余。现有分层工具基于单一时点影像或需显式病灶分割,难以捕捉纵向变化,且排除无MRI可见病灶者。本研究提出一种端到端的时序多模态模型,无需病变分割即可预测AS期间病理进展。通过预训练3D MRI基础模型编码每期扫描,并引入时序注意力门重新校准多访次特征,突出与进展相关的局灶性影像变化。将门控影像表示与临床变量融合,在多模态框架中估计进展概率。在纵向AS队列上验证,该方法持续优于对比基线,性能接近放射科医生评估——当前临床实践标准。其保持高负预测值的同时提升正预测值,展现出安全减少监测中不必要的活检的潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Active surveillance (AS) is the preferred strategy for favorable-risk prostate cancer, yet current protocols rely on scheduled repeat biopsies, most of which reveal no progression and are unnecessary. Existing risk-stratification tools operate on single time-point imaging or depend on explicit lesion segmentation, limiting their ability to capture longitudinal change and excluding patients without an MRI-visible lesion. In this study, we propose an end-to-end temporal and multimodal model for predicting pathological progression during AS without lesion segmentation. We encode each serial scan with a pretrained 3D MRI foundation model and introduce a temporal attention gate that recalibrates the multi-visit features to amplify focal imaging changes associated with progression. The gated imaging representation is then fused with clinical variables in a multimodal framework to estimate the probability of progression. Validated on a longitudinal AS cohort, our approach consistently outperforms competing baselines and performs comparably to the radiologist assessment representing current clinical practice. It maintains high negative predictive value while achieving higher positive predictive value, demonstrating its potential to safely reduce unnecessary biopsies during surveillance.

前列腺癌主动监测多模态时序建模

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