Surgery

Robotic salvage pelvic lymph node dissection for locoregional recurrence after radical prostatectomy: a single institution experience.

OBJECTIVES: To assess treatment response (PSA < 0.2 ng/ml), need for additional therapy and complica...

Design of a Robotic Coach for Motor, Social and Cognitive Skills Training Toward Applications With ASD Children.

Socially assistive robots may help the treatment of autism spectrum disorder(ASD), through games usi...

Robotic resection of an aortic valve fibroelastoma using a right lateral approach.

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY: Robotic technology provides excellent visualization and surgical pr...

Multi-institutional development and external validation of machine learning-based models to predict relapse risk of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma after radical resection.

BACKGROUND: Surgical resection is the only potentially curative treatment for pancreatic ductal aden...

ABO blood group system and risk of positive surgical margins in patients treated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: results in 1114 consecutive patients.

To test the hypothesis of associations between the ABO blood group system (ABO-bg) and prostate canc...

A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges.

Achieving both high compliance and stiffness is a key issue in stiffness-tunable soft robots. A wide...

Assessing the utility of deep neural networks in predicting postoperative surgical complications: a retrospective study.

BACKGROUND: Early detection of postoperative complications, including organ failure, is pivotal in t...

Two degree-of-freedom robotic eye: design, modeling, and learning-based control in foveation and smooth pursuit.

With increasing ocular motility disorders affecting human eye movement, the need to understand the b...

Application of fuzzy neural network model and current-voltage analysis of biologically active points for prediction post-surgery risks.

The work investigates neural network model for prediction of post-surgical treatment risks. The desc...

A Commentary on "Long-term oncological outcomes in robotic versus laparoscopic approach for rectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis" [Int. J. Surg. 80 (2020) 225-230].

[DeRAS I-German situation of robotic-assisted surgery-an online survey].

BACKGROUND: Robotic assistance has become established in surgery but is not yet a standard procedure...

Video recognition of simple mastoidectomy using convolutional neural networks: Detection and segmentation of surgical tools and anatomical regions.

A simple mastoidectomy is used to remove inflammation of the mastoid cavity and to create a route to...

Evaluation of external contamination on the vial surfaces of some hazardous drugs that commonly used in Chinese hospitals and comparison between environmental contamination generated during robotic compounding by IV: Dispensing robot vs. manual compounding in biological safety cabinet.

OBJECTIVES: The aims of the study were to evaluate the external contamination of hazardous drug vial...

V-Shape Pneumatic Torsional Actuator: A Building Block for Soft Grasper and Manipulator.

Robotic joints are fundamental components in artificial graspers and manipulators, and they are desi...

Object and anatomical feature recognition in surgical video images based on a convolutional neural network.

PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence-enabled techniques can process large amounts of surgical data and m...

Trout-like multifunctional piezoelectric robotic fish and energy harvester.

This work presents our experimental studies on a trout-inspired multifunctional robotic fish as an u...

Initial experience with a suprapubic single-port robotic right hemicolectomy in patients with colon cancer.

BACKGROUND: We developed a novel suprapubic single-port robotic right hemicolectomy (spRHC) procedur...

Tip estimation approach for concentric tube robots using 2D ultrasound images and kinematic model.

Concentric tube robot (CTR) is an efficient approach for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and diagno...

[New intraoperative fluorescence-based and spectroscopic imaging techniques in visceral medicine - precision surgery in the "high tech"-operating room].

INTRODUCTION: Fluorescence angiography (FA) with indocyanine green (ICG) and hyperspectral imaging (...

The Impact of New Surgical Techniques on Geographical Unwarranted Variation: The Case of Benign Hysterectomy.

Since the 1980s, the international literature has reported variations for healthcare services, espec...

Perioperative Outcomes of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Versus Extracorporeal Urinary Diversion.

PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate and compare the perioperative outcomes of intracorpo...