ln clinical pr actice PET images are usually read in a qualitative mamner，across a rangeof clinically relevant tasks from staging，treatment planning,and surgical or therapy inter-vention planning.Sensitivities can range as mud as 35% for PET imaging depending an themclear medicine/PET physician and cancer type (Newman-Toker et al., 2021). This can bean issue in the case of metastatic cancer where small lesions can be overlooked (Perani et al..2014). Considering these shor tfalls, there is significant motivation for developing accurateautomated detection methods,a ma jor topic of interest in medical imaging research.