Surgery

Open Radical Cystectomy versus Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Early Outcomes of a Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.

PURPOSE: Radical cystectomy (RC) with urinary diversion (UD) is still considered a complex surgery associated with significant morbidity. Open RC (ORC) remains the reference option of treatment, even if adoption of robot-assisted RC (RARC) is rapidly increasing. To date, all the available randomized controlled trials were characterized by an extracorporeal approach in performing UD, undermining po...

3D printing of resilient biogels for omnidirectional and exteroceptive soft actuators.

Soft robotics greatly benefits from nature as a source of inspiration, introducing innate means of safe interaction between robotic appliances and living organisms. In contrast, the materials involved are often nonbiodegradable or stem from nonrenewable resources, contributing to an ever-growing environmental footprint. Furthermore, conventional manufacturing methods, such as mold casting, are not...

Deploying Machine Learning Techniques for Human Emotion Detection.

Emotion recognition is one of the trending research fields. It is involved in several applications. Its most interesting applications include robotic ...

A case of direct inguinal hernia incarceration after transperitoneal robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

In this study, we report a case of incarcerated direct inguinal hernia (DIH) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in a patient with conco...

Surgical Complications and Hospital Costs in Robot-Assisted Versus Conventional Laparoscopic Hysterectomy With Concurrent Sacrocolpopexy: Analysis of the Nationwide Readmissions Database.

OBJECTIVES: Despite increasing use of robotic technology for minimally invasive hysterectomy with sacrocolpopexy, evidence supporting the benefits of ...

Effect of Artificial Intelligence Tutoring vs Expert Instruction on Learning Simulated Surgical Skills Among Medical Students: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

IMPORTANCE: To better understand the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgical training, efficacy of AI tutoring systems, such as the ...

The transferability of the minimal invasive surgeon's skills to open surgery.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery has gained popularity, which has contributed to a decrease in the number of open procedures. Hence a g...

Automated procedure to assess pup retrieval in laboratory mice.

All mammalian mothers form some sort of caring bond with their infants that is crucial to the development of their offspring. The Pup Retrieval Test (...

A Cylindrical Grip Type of Tactile Device Using Magneto-Responsive Materials Integrated with Surgical Robot Console: Design and Analysis.

This paper proposes a cylindrical grip type of tactile device that is effectively integrated to a surgical robot console so that a surgeon can easily ...

BID-Net: An Automated System for Bone Invasion Detection Occurring at Stage T4 in Oral Squamous Carcinoma Using Deep Learning.

Detection of the presence and absence of bone invasion by the tumor in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients is very significant for their trea...

Impact of the severity of urethrovesical anastomotic leakage on urinary continence following robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

We assessed whether the severity of anastomotic urinary leakage detected during routine cystourethrography after robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatec...

Assessing pentafecta achievement after robot-assisted radical cystectomy and its association with surgical experience: Results from a high-volume institution.

OBJECTIVES: Radical cystectomy (RC) represents the gold standard treatment for high-risk bladder cancer. Despite evidence suggesting that surgical exp...

Initial clinical experience with a novel flexible endoscopic robot for transanal surgery.

BACKGROUND: The Flex Robotic System (Medrobotics, Raynham, MA, USA) is the first miniaturised flexible endoscopic robot that aims to allow surgical ma...

Spatio-temporal deep learning for automatic detection of intracranial vessel perforation in digital subtraction angiography during endovascular thrombectomy.

Intracranial vessel perforation is a peri-procedural complication during endovascular therapy (EVT). Prompt recognition is important as its occurrence...

Mini-review: Robotic wheelchair taxonomy and readiness.

Robotic wheelchair research and development is a growing sector. This article introduces a robotic wheelchair taxonomy, and a readiness model supporte...

Sequential endoscopic and robot-assisted surgical solutions for a rare fungal spondylodiscitis, secondary lumbar spinal stenosis, and subsequent discal pseudocyst causing acute cauda equina syndrome: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Fungal spondylodiscitis is a rare infectious disease. The secondary lumbar spinal stenosis and postoperative discal pseudocyst were even r...

Machine Learning Techniques for Increasing Efficiency of the Robot's Sensor and Control Information Processing.

Real-time systems are widely used in industry, including technological process control systems, industrial automation systems, SCADA systems, testing,...

Efficacy of Transversus Abdominis Plane Block in the Reduction of Pain and Opioid Requirement in Laparoscopic and Robot-assisted Hysterectomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

OBJECTIVE:  To summarize the available evidence of TAP Block in efficacy in laparoscopic or robotic hysterectomy.

Does type of robotic platform make a difference in the final cost of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy?

This study evaluates the difference of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) costs in patients with similar preoperative characteristics operate...

Use of machine learning to model surgical decision-making in lumbar spine surgery.

PURPOSE: The majority of lumbar spine surgery referrals do not proceed to surgery. Early identification of surgical candidates in the referral process...