The Novel Green Learning Artificial Intelligence for Prostate Cancer Imaging A Balanced Alternative to Deep Learning and Radiomics

Prostate MRI is an area where the application of AI has shown promising results in recent years. Several AI systems have been developed to automatically analyze prostate MRI images for prostate segmentation, cancer detection, and region characterization, thereby assisting clinicians in their decision-making process. The current trend in PCa imaging AI is DL, but this approach suffers from the black box issue and excessive energy consumption. Therefore, next-generation non-DL AI models such as GL that can achieve high accuracy while still being explainable and sustainable are desired. To prepare for the coming AI era, physicians must be familiar with imaging AI for PCa diagnosis.