Can quantitative perfusion CT-based biomarkers predict renal cell carcinoma subtypes?

Purpose: To assess diagnostic accuracy of perfusion CT (pCT) based biomarkers in differentiating clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) from non-ccRCC.

Materials And Method: This retrospective study comprised 95 patients with RCCs (70 ccRCCs and 25 non-ccRCCs) who had perfusion CT (pCT) before surgery between January 2017 and December 2022. Two readers independently recorded PCT parameters [blood flow (BF), blood volume (BV), mean transit time (MTT), and time to peak (TTP)] by drawing a circular ROI on the tumor.

Data Privacy in Healthcare: In the Era of Artificial Intelligence.

Data Privacy has increasingly become a matter of concern in the era of large public digital respositories of data. This is particularly true in healthcare where data can be misused if traced back to patients, and brings with itself a myriad of possibilities. Bring custodians of data, as well as being at the helm of disigning studies and products that can potentially benefit products, healthcare professionals often find themselves unsure about ethical and legal constraints that undelie data sharing.