Medical Education

Evolution of a Novel Robotic Training Curriculum in a Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship.

BACKGROUND: Robotic surgery is increasingly being used for complex oncologic operations, although cu...

Will artificial intelligence solve the human resource crisis in healthcare?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to ease the human resources crisis in healthcare by f...

Is Robotic Complete Mesocolic Excision Feasible for Transverse Colon Cancer?

Laparoscopic complete mesocolic excision (CME) for transverse colon cancer is technically challengi...

Editorial Comment to Concurrent validation of a robotic simulator curriculum focused on "core" exercises: Does it help overcome baseline skill levels?

Simulation of patient flow in multiple healthcare units using process and data mining techniques for model identification.

INTRODUCTION: An approach to building a hybrid simulation of patient flow is introduced with a combi...

Machine Learning-Augmented Propensity Score-Adjusted Multilevel Mixed Effects Panel Analysis of Hands-On Cooking and Nutrition Education versus Traditional Curriculum for Medical Students as Preventive Cardiology: Multisite Cohort Study of 3,248 Trainees over 5 Years.

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) annually claims more lives and costs more dollars than any ...

The Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery (SERGS) Pilot Curriculum for robot-assisted gynaecological surgery: authors' reply to a letter to the editor.

Pilot study of Society of European Robotic Gynecological Surgery (SERGS) curriculum for robot-assisted surgery.

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Radiology: A Survey at a Single Radiology Residency Training Program.

PURPOSE: Advances in artificial intelligence applied to diagnostic radiology are predicted to have a...

Modelling multi-rotor UAVs swarm deployment using virtual pheromones.

In this work, a swarm behaviour for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deployment will be p...

Midwifery students' understanding and knowledge of normal birth before 'delivery' of curriculum.

OBJECTIVE: To generate new knowledge that describes and explains the views and understanding, regard...

Neural Network Based Prediction of Conformational Free Energies - A New Route toward Coarse-Grained Simulation Models.

Coarse-grained (CG) simulation models have become very popular tools to study complex molecular syst...

Educational effects using a robot patient simulation system for development of clinical attitude.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of improving the attitude of den...

Chaotic genetic algorithm and Adaboost ensemble metamodeling approach for optimum resource planning in emergency departments.

Long length of stay and overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) are two common problems in the h...

Method of Improved Fuzzy Contrast Combined Adaptive Threshold in NSCT for Medical Image Enhancement.

Noises and artifacts are introduced to medical images due to acquisition techniques and systems. Thi...

Development of an expert system for the simulation model for casting metal substructure of a metal-ceramic crown design.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nowadays, the integrated CAD/CAE systems are favored solutions for the de...

Abstraction, Sensory-Motor Coordination, and the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics.

One of the major challenges of evolutionary robotics is to transfer robot controllers evolved in sim...

Hybrid neuro-heuristic methodology for simulation and control of dynamic systems over time interval.

Simulation and positioning are very important aspects of computer aided engineering. To process thes...

Neuronify: An Educational Simulator for Neural Circuits.

Educational software (apps) can improve science education by providing an interactive way of learnin...

Active Self-Paced Learning for Cost-Effective and Progressive Face Identification.

This paper aims to develop a novel cost-effective framework for face identification, which progressi...

System Integration and In Vivo Testing of a Robot for Ultrasound Guidance and Monitoring During Radiotherapy.

We are developing a cooperatively controlled robot system for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) ...