Salvador Jaime-Casas: AI Shows Promise in Bladder Tumor Detection During Cystoscopy
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Salvador Jaime-Casas: AI Shows Promise in Bladder Tumor Detection During Cystoscopy

Salvador Jaime-Casas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at City of Hope, shared on X:

“Very excited to share our most recent publication lead by stellar mentors Francesco Del Giudice, Benjamin Chung – a SR of AI models for tumor detection during cysto in pts with suspected Bladder Cancer.

Following PRISMA guidelines:

  • 12,840 patients, 13 studies (2018 – 2025) were included.
  • 236,925 frames, 36,890 contained lesion
  • AI models: CNNs, U-Net variants, GoogLeNet, ResNet, DenseNet, EfficientNet, CystoNet, and CAIDS
  • Mod to high accuracy across models

Salvador Jaime-Casas

Four AI model clusters:

  • CNN-based architectures (8 studies)
  • CAIDS architectures (2 studies)
  • BSU architecture (1 study)
  • non-CNN-based and proprietary models (2 studies)

Overall:

  • Promising performance, but context and study design specific
  • Better when used as adjunct with human-analyzed frames
  • Lack of widespread implementation, mostly limited to academic centers
  • Mainly retrospective designs, and single-frames analysis (vs. video)”

Title: Artificial intelligence (AI)-based models for bladder cancer (BC) endoscopic detection: a systematic review

Authors: Salvador Jaime-Casas, Roberta Corvino, Jan Łaszkiewicz, Amir Khan, Benjamin I. Chung, Vincenzo Asero, Valerio Santarelli, Dalila Carino, Sarah Carvalho Ribeiro, Stefano Impaloni, Francesco Del Giudice

Read the article.

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Salvador Jaime-Casas: AI Shows Promise in Bladder Tumor Detection During Cystoscopy