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Abstract #7903

PI-RADS: NO!

Pieter Julien Luc De Visschere1

1Department of Radiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Reporting prostate MRI may be complex and prone to subjective interpretation. In 2012 the Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) was introduced. The aims of PI-RADS were to provide minimal requirements for high-quality image acquisition, to standardize reporting, to simplify interpretation, to reduce inter-observer variability and to improve the accuracy of detecting clinically significant prostate cancer. In this lecture it is demonstrated that PI-RADS does not (yet) achieve these goals successfully and that other prostate MRI scoring systems show similar diagnostic performance. PI-RADS has its merits but requires further refinements.

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