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<Articles JournalTitle="Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Biomedical Technologies</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2345-5837</Issn>
      <Volume>0</Volume>
      <Issue>0</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>02</Month>
        <Day>05</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Towards Routine AI-Based PET/CT and SPECT/CT Lesion Segmentation and Tracking in PSMA Theranostics</title>
    <FirstPage>1582</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>1582</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Fereshteh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Yousefirizi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Basic and Translational Research, BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Jean-Mathieu</FirstName>
        <LastName>Beauregard</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine; and Cancer Research Centre, Universit&#xE9; Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Arman</FirstName>
        <LastName>Rahmim</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Departments of Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>25</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2026</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Quantitative molecular imaging is central to treatment response assessment in oncology, yet clinical practice remains largely dominated by patient-level or limited target-lesion criteria that ignore inter-lesion heterogeneity. This limitation is particularly important in prostate cancer, where PSMA PET/CT can reveal extensive skeletal and nodal metastatic disease that often evolves heterogeneously under therapy. Accurate and scalable lesion segmentation and tracking across serial PSMA PET/CT and post-therapy SPECT/CT scans is therefore essential for implementing emerging PSMA-specific response frameworks, such as RECIP 1.0, and for enabling lesion-level dosimetry in 177Lu-PSMA radiopharmaceutical therapies (RPTs).
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This article examines clinical motivations, technical foundations, and future pathways for automated lesion tracking in prostate cancer imaging. We focus on the unique requirements introduced by PSMA PET/CT compared with FDG PET/CT and highlight the critical role of quantitative SPECT/CT in linking imaging-derived disease characterization with delivered therapeutic dose. Recent advances in AI-based segmentation and automated lesion matching now make scalable longitudinal lesion correspondence feasible, providing comprehensive infrastructure for standardized response assessment and personalized PSMA-based theranostics.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/view/1582</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://fbt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fbt/article/download/1582/552</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
