Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Risk-based Prostate Cancer Detection

Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Risk-based Prostate Cancer Detection: A Synergy of Novel Biomarkers, Advanced Imaging, and Robotic-assisted Diagnosis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05443412
• Other study ID #: CRE 2022.245
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: August 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2026

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Contact: Peter Ka-Fung CHIU, FRCS, PhD
• Phone: 35052625
• Email: peterchiu[@]surgery.cuhk.edu.hk
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a prospective clinical study recruiting 510 men at risk of PCa to undergo urine, blood, AI-assisted ultrasound and AI-assisted MRI investigations to stratify risk of clinically significant PCa (csPCa). (sample size calculation in section 5)

Description:

All recruited patients will undergo investigations including urine for spermine, blood for miRNA, TRUS, and MRI prostate. Patients with high suspicion of csPCa in any one step (urine, blood, ultrasound, OR MRI) will be offered an image-guided prostate biopsy. This will be followed by machine learning techniques to find the best combination in predicting csPCa.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 510
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2026
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2026
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Male
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men =18 years of age

• Clinical suspicion of prostate cancer

• Serum Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) 4-20 ng/mL

• Digital rectal examination = cT2 (organ confined cancer)

• Able to provide written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior prostate biopsy

• Past or current history of prostate cancer

• Contraindicated to undergo plain MRI scan (e.g. pacemaker in-situ, claustrophobia)

• Contraindicated to transperineal prostate biopsy: active urinary tract infection, fail TRUS probe insertion or lithotomy position, uncorrectable coagulopathy, antiplatelet or anticoagulant which cannot be stopped

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Prostate Cancer
• Prostatic Neoplasms

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Diagnostic test for prostate cancer
All recruited patients will undergo investigations including urine for spermine, blood for miRNA, TRUS, and MRI prostate. Patients with high suspicion of Clinically significant prostate cancer in any one step (urine, blood, ultrasound, OR MRI) will be offered an image-guided prostate biopsy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Hong Kong	Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Hong Kong, 

References & Publications (24)

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Chiu PK, Roobol MJ, Teoh JY, Lee WM, Yip SY, Hou SM, Bangma CH, Ng CF. Prostate health index (PHI) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) predictive models for prostate cancer in the Chinese population and the role of digital rectal examination-estimated prostate volume. Int Urol Nephrol. 2016 Oct;48(10):1631-7. doi: 10.1007/s11255-016-1350-8. Epub 2016 Jun 27. — View Citation

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Diagnosis of clinically significant Prostate cancer (csPCa); • csPCa is diagnosis of ISUP Grade group =2 prostate cancer in at least 1 biopsy core	Assessed by by machine learning algorithms utilizing clinical parameters, novel biomarkers and AI-assisted imaging	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Diagnosis of any grade of prostate cancer	Assessed by prostate biopsy	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Proportion of men with diagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer	Assessed by prostate biopsy	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Prostate biopsies that can be avoided	Assessed by using different machine learning algorithms	Through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	The concordance of AI-assisted TRUS & MRI diagnosis and biopsy outcomes	Assessed by using different machine learning algorithms and prostate biopsy result	Through study completion, an average of 1 year