Liang Wang, MD, PhD, presented “Current Status of External Validation of Inter-Reader Reproducibility for the Prostate Imaging Quality (PI-QUAL)” during the 8th Global Summit on Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer on October 8, 2024.
How to cite: Wang, Liang. “Current Status of External Validation of Inter-Reader Reproducibility for the Prostate Imaging Quality (PI-QUAL).” October 8, 2024. Accessed Apr 2025. https://grandroundsinurology.com/current-status-of-external-validation-of-inter-reader-reproducibility-for-the-prostate-imaging-quality-pi-qual/
Current Status of External Validation of Inter-Reader Reproducibility for the Prostate Imaging Quality (PI-QUAL) – Summary
Liang Wang, MD, PhD, focuses on advancements in imaging quality for prostate cancer diagnostics in this 6-minute presentation. Dr. Wang emphasizes that despite prostate cancer’s significant public health burden, imaging quality remains the weakest link in the diagnostic process. The study investigates the reproducibility of a new imaging quality assessment system, PI-QUAL v1, using data from 41 centers and over 500 scans. Dr. Wang highlights that T2-weighted, DWI, and DCE sequences achieved moderate to strong agreement levels. Wang notes the importance of refining this system for broader clinical use, with a call for prospective studies to further validate these findings.
The Global Summit on Precision Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer is a unique multi-disciplinary forum organized to inform the key health care stakeholders about the emerging advances in clinical case and research and create a consensus-based vision for the future of precision care and educational and research strategy for its realization. The mission of the Summit is to fill the currently existing gap between the key experts of in vivo imaging, the world authorities in the in vitro fluid- and tissue-based molecular diagnostics, including genomics, and thought leaders in the development of novel observation strategies (e.g., active surveillance, or AS) and therapeutic interventions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liang Wang, MD, PhD, is a Professor and Attending Radiologist at Tongji University Hospital in Wuhan, China. He was previously a clinical research fellow at Tulane Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.
