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An Efficient Stacked Deep Transfer Learning Model for Automated Diagnosis of Lyme Disease.

Lyme disease is one of the most common vector-borne infections. It typically causes cardiac illnesse...

Artificial Intelligence for Glaucoma: Creating and Implementing Artificial Intelligence for Disease Detection and Progression.

On September 3, 2020, the Collaborative Community on Ophthalmic Imaging conducted its first 2-day vi...

Reply to Francesco Montorsi, Armando Stabile, Giorgio Gandaglia, and Alberto Briganti's Letter to the Editor re: K.R. Seetharam Bhat, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Marco Sandri, et al. Outcomes of Salvage Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy After Focal Ablation for Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Primary Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Matched Analysis. Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2021.10.005: Salvage Robotic Radical Prostatectomy for Recurrence After Focal Therapy-The Truth and Consequences.

Re: K.R. Seetharam Bhat, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Marco Sandri, et al. Outcomes of Salvage Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy After Focal Ablation for Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Primary Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Matched Analysis. Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2021.10.005.

Arterial enhancing local tumor progression detection on CT images using convolutional neural network after hepatocellular carcinoma ablation: a preliminary study.

To evaluate the performance of a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) in detecting local tumor p...

Predicting Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence by Combining Population Data and Virtual Cohorts of Patient-Specific Left Atrial Models.

BACKGROUND: Current ablation therapy for atrial fibrillation is suboptimal, and long-term response i...

PCAT-UNet: UNet-like network fused convolution and transformer for retinal vessel segmentation.

The accurate segmentation of retinal vessels images can not only be used to evaluate and monitor var...

A novel graph convolutional neural network for predicting interaction sites on protein kinase inhibitors in phosphorylation.

Protein kinase-inhibitor interactions are key to the phosphorylation of proteins involved in cell pr...

Bayesian-based optimized deep learning model to detect COVID-19 patients using chest X-ray image data.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is extremely infectious and rapidly spreading around the globe. ...

A Case for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Glaucoma Assessment.

We hypothesize that artificial intelligence (AI) applied to relevant clinical testing in glaucoma ha...

Trustworthy AI: Closing the gap between development and integration of AI systems in ophthalmic practice.

An increasing number of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being proposed in ophthalmology, mo...

Novel computational models offer alternatives to animal testing for assessing eye irritation and corrosion potential of chemicals.

Eye irritation and corrosion are fundamental considerations in developing chemicals to be used in or...

Outcomes of Salvage Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy After Focal Ablation for Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Primary Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: A Matched Analysis.

BACKGROUND: Focal therapy (FT) for prostate cancer is less invasive than radical treatment but carri...

Enhanced precision of real-time control photothermal therapy using cost-effective infrared sensor array and artificial neural network.

Photothermal therapy (PTT) requires tight thermal dose control to achieve tumor ablation with minima...

Future Platforms of Robotic Surgery.

Among the various robotic devices that exist for urologic surgery, the most common are synergistic t...

Deep Learning-Based Computed Tomography Imaging to Diagnose the Lung Nodule and Treatment Effect of Radiofrequency Ablation.

This study aimed to detect and diagnose the lung nodules as early as possible to effectively treat t...

Adaptive Control Improves Sclera Force Safety in Robot-Assisted Eye Surgery: A Clinical Study.

The integration of robotics into retinal microsurgery leads to a reduction in surgeon perception of ...

Prediction of In Vivo Laser-Induced Thermal Damage with Hyperspectral Imaging Using Deep Learning.

Thermal ablation is an acceptable alternative treatment for primary liver cancer, of which laser abl...

Fundus image segmentation via hierarchical feature learning.

Fundus Image Segmentation (FIS) is an essential procedure for the automated diagnosis of ophthalmic ...

Deep Learning-Based Recurrence Prediction of Atrial Fibrillation After Catheter Ablation.

BACKGROUND: Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) is an effective therapy for atrial fibrillation ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic urologic surgery in infants weighing ≤10 kg: A weight stratified analysis.

INTRODUCTION: Robot-assisted laparoscopic (RAL) urologic surgery is widely used in pediatric patient...