Analysis of domain shift in whole prostate gland, zonal and lesions segmentation and detection, using multicentric retrospective data.

Despite being one of the most prevalent forms of cancer, prostate cancer (PCa) shows a significantly high survival rate, provided there is timely detection and treatment. Computational methods can help make this detection process considerably faster and more robust. However, some modern machine-learning approaches require accurate segmentation of the prostate gland and the index lesion. Since performing manual segmentations is a very time-consuming task, and highly prone to inter-observer variability, there is a need to develop robust semi-automatic segmentation models. In this work, we leverage the large and highly diverse ProstateNet dataset, which includes 638 whole gland and 461 lesion segmentation masks, from 3 different scanner manufacturers provided by 14 institutions, in addition to other 3 independent public datasets, to train accurate and robust segmentation models for the whole prostate gland, zones and lesions. We show that models trained on large amounts of diverse data are better at generalizing to data from other institutions and obtained with other manufacturers, outperforming models trained on single-institution single-manufacturer datasets in all segmentation tasks. Furthermore, we show that lesion segmentation models trained on ProstateNet can be reliably used as lesion detection models.

Two Rare Entities in One Patient: Mucinous Tubular and Spindle Cell Carcinoma of the Kidney and Peritoneal Adenomyomas.

Mucinous tubular and spindle cell carcinoma of the kidney is a rare subtype of renal cell carcinoma, that is believed to portend a favorable prognosis. Adenomyomas are benign tumors that typically arise from the myometrium. Extrauterine adenomyomas are extremely rare, with only a few cases reported in the literature. Here, we present an unusual case of a 46-year-old woman, with an incidentally detected bulky interpolar left kidney mass measuring 12 cm and multiple lobulated coalescent peritoneal nodules in the large epiploon suspicious for peritoneal carcinomatosis. A biopsy of the lesions revealed a mucinous tubular and spindle cell carcinoma of the kidney and extrauterine adenomyomas of the peritoneum. A left radical nephrectomy was performed and long-term hormone therapy with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists was prescribed. The purpose of this article is to focus on these two rare lesions, review the current literature, illustrate their key imaging findings along with pathologic correlation, as well as to discuss the differential diagnosis and clinical management.