Surgery

Robotic enucleation of a biliary adenofibroma.

A 69-year-old man was referred to the hepatobiliary surgeons for mild enlargement of an asymptomatic cystic liver lesion found on routine screening in 2017 that measured 3.7×3.6×4.3 cm. Work-up with MRI revealed a complex multilocular cyst that had enlarged to 6.6×5.5×4.6 cm. Other work-up was unremarkable. He had a Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group score of 1; therefore, a surgical excision was ...

Endoscopic Image-Based Skill Assessment in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Objective skill assessment-based personal performance feedback is a vital part of surgical training. Either kinematic-acquired through surgical robotic systems, mounted sensors on tooltips or wearable sensors-or visual input data can be employed to perform objective algorithm-driven skill assessment. Kinematic data have been successfully linked with the expertise of surgeons performing Robot-Assis...

Robotic Radical Trachelectomy with Primary Vaginal Closure to Spare Fertility in Young Patients with Early-Stage Cervical Cancer.

OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to present the surgical technique of robotic radical trachelectomy (RRT) for early-stage squamous cell cervical cancer in women...

Force-guided autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning control method for soft uncertain environment.

PURPOSE: Autonomous ultrasound imaging by robotic ultrasound scanning systems in complex soft uncertain clinical environments is important and challen...

Implementation of six degree-of-freedom high-precision robotic phantom on commercial industrial robotic manipulator.

This technical note discloses our implementation of a six degree-of-freedom (DOF) high-precision robotic phantom on a commercially available industria...

Robotic pancreas surgery: an overview of history and update on technique, outcomes, and financials.

The use robotics in surgery is gaining momentum. This approach holds substantial promise in pancreas surgery. Robotic surgery for pancreatic lesions a...

Intraoperative multimodal analgesic bundle containing dexmedetomidine and ketorolac may improve analgesia after robot-assisted prostatectomy in patients receiving rectus sheath blocks.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) has replaced open prostatectomy. However, RALP does not reduce...

Letter to the Editor on "Complications Following Robotic Hiatal Hernia Repair Are Higher Compared to Laparoscopy".

Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Retroperitoneal Renal Artery Aneurysm Repair: A Rare Case Report and Literature Review.

INTRODUCTION: The treatment of renal artery aneurysms (RAAs) includes surgical repair and endovascular techniques. Surgical repair is divided into ope...

Distributed associative memory network with memory refreshing loss.

Despite recent progress in memory augmented neural network (MANN) research, associative memory networks with a single external memory still show limit...

Object Manipulation with an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand via Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Synergy Space of Natural Hand Poses.

Anthropomorphic robotic hands are designed to attain dexterous movements and flexibility much like human hands. Achieving human-like object manipulati...

Estimating Reference Bony Shape Models for Orthognathic Surgical Planning Using 3D Point-Cloud Deep Learning.

Orthognathic surgical outcomes rely heavily on the quality of surgical planning. Automatic estimation of a reference facial bone shape significantly r...

Pure laparoscopic versus robotic liver resections: Multicentric propensity score-based analysis with stratification according to difficulty scores.

BACKGROUND: The benefits of pure laparoscopic and robot-assisted liver resections (LLR and RALR) are known in comparison to open surgery. The aim of t...

Surgical outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy for cystic renal cell carcinoma.

To compare the surgical outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) between patients with cystic renal cell carcinoma (cRCC) and those with ...

Machine learning-based prediction of acute kidney injury after nephrectomy in patients with renal cell carcinoma.

The precise prediction of acute kidney injury (AKI) after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is an important issue because of its relationship...

Imputation of the continuous arterial line blood pressure waveform from non-invasive measurements using deep learning.

In two-thirds of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and 90% of surgical patients, arterial blood pressure (ABP) is monitored non-invasively but interm...

Robotic versus laparoscopic right hemicolectomy: a case-matched study.

The current gold standard surgical treatment for right colonic malignancy is the laparoscopic right hemicolectomy (LRH). However, laparoscopic surgery...

Single assistant versus dual assistant robotic surgery for robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy using da Vinci Xi or X.

BACKGROUND: To verify the usefulness of single assistant robotic surgery (SA-RS) using da Vinci Xi or X performed for total hysterectomy.

Development and Validation of a 3-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Surgical Skill Assessment Based on Spatiotemporal Video Analysis.

IMPORTANCE: A high level of surgical skill is essential to prevent intraoperative problems. One important aspect of surgical education is surgical ski...

Comparison of Acute and Chronic Surgical Complications Following Robot-Assisted, Laparoscopic, and Traditional Open Radical Prostatectomy Among Men in Taiwan.

IMPORTANCE: Few studies have evaluated long-term surgical complications in patients with prostate cancer (PC) who receive open radical prostatectomy (...