Deep learning models built from PSMA PET of the primary tumor can predict synchronous and metachronous prostate cancer metastases

• Jesus E. Juarez Casillas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9604-992X

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• Maryam Nezafat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Exini Diagnostics (subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings, Inc), Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Cecil M. Benitez,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kamil Rzechowski,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Exini Diagnostics (subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings, Inc), Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Nathanael Kane,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Karl Sjöstrand,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Exini Diagnostics (subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings, Inc), Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Aseem Anand,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Exini Diagnostics (subsidiary of Lantheus Holdings, Inc), Bedford, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ida Sonni,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Radiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Gholam R. Berenji,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Sai Duriseti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Matthew B. Rettig,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-3056

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• Nicholas G. Nickols

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nicholas.nickols@va.gov, nnickols@mednet.ucla.edu

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, Department of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3131-9212

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