Fahmida Haque, Benjamin D Simon, Kutsev B Özyörük, Stephanie A Harmon, Barış Türkbey
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Abstract
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer in men and has a significant health and social burden, necessitating advances in early detection, prognosis, and treatment strategies. Improvement in medical imaging has significantly impacted early PCa detection, characterization, and treatment planning. However, with an increasing number of patients with PCa and comparatively fewer PCa imaging experts, interpreting large numbers of imaging data is burdensome, time-consuming, and prone to variability among experts. With the revolutionary advances of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging, image interpretation tasks are becoming easier and exhibit the potential to reduce the workload on physicians. Generative AI (GenAI) is a recently popular sub-domain of AI that creates new data instances, often to resemble patterns and characteristics of the real data. This new field of AI has shown significant potential for generating synthetic medical images with diverse and clinically relevant information. In this narrative review, we discuss the basic concepts of GenAI and cover the recent application of GenAI in the PCa imaging domain. This review will help the readers understand where the PCa research community stands in terms of various medical image applications like generating multi-modal synthetic images, image quality improvement, PCa detection, classification, and digital pathology image generation. We also address the current safety concerns, limitations, and challenges of GenAI for technical and clinical adaptation, as well as the limitations of current literature, potential solutions, and future directions with GenAI for the PCa community.
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The Balkan Medical Journal (Balkan Med J) is a peer-reviewed open-access international journal that publishes interesting clinical and experimental research conducted in all fields of medicine, interesting case reports and clinical images, invited reviews, editorials, letters, comments and letters to the Editor including reports on publication and research ethics. The journal is the official scientific publication of the Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey and is printed six times a year, in January, March, May, July, September and November. The language of the journal is English.
The journal is based on independent and unbiased double-blinded peer-reviewed principles. Only unpublished papers that are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Balkan Medical Journal does not accept multiple submission and duplicate submission even though the previous one was published in a different language. The authors are responsible for the scientific content of the material to be published. The Balkan Medical Journal reserves the right to request any research materials on which the paper is based.
The Balkan Medical Journal encourages and enables academicians, researchers, specialists and primary care physicians of Balkan countries to publish their valuable research in all branches of medicine. The primary aim of the journal is to publish original articles with high scientific and ethical quality and serve as a good example of medical publications in the Balkans as well as in the World.
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