Surgery

Commentary: Robotic anatomic lung resection: Raising the bar of our expectations in treating lung cancer.

Dynamic modeling and simulation of inchworm movement towards bio-inspired soft robot design.

Inchworms have been one of the most widely used bionic templates for designing soft robotic devices. Bioresearch has shown that muscles of inchworms exhibit nonlinear hysteresis and their body structures are with hydrostatic skeleton. But effects of these properties on their dynamic movements have not been studied yet. In this work, a dynamic model based on the principle of virtual power of an inc...

Making the Jump: A Qualitative Analysis on the Transition From Bedside Assistant to Console Surgeon in Robotic Surgery Training.

OBJECTIVE: To determine barriers associated with the transition from bedside assistant to console surgeon for general surgery residents in the era of ...

Deep-learning model for predicting 30-day postoperative mortality.

BACKGROUND: Postoperative mortality occurs in 1-2% of patients undergoing major inpatient surgery. The currently available prediction tools using summ...

Transplant nephrectomy with peritoneal window: Georgetown University experience.

OBJECTIVES: Transplant nephrectomy is a technically challenging procedure with high complication rates. Morbidity and mortality are mostly due to hemo...

Laparoscopic resection of choledochal cysts in adults: a series from Turkey.

OBJECTIVES: Choledochal cyst is a congenital disease in which surgical treatment is preliminary because of the potential for malignancy. In recent yea...

Re: Baojun Wang, Qingbo Huang, Kan Liu, et al. Robot-assisted Level III-IV Inferior Vena Cava Thrombectomy: Initial Series with Step-by-step Procedures and 1-yr Outcomes. Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2019.04.019: Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Nephrectomy and Tumor Thrombectomy: Is It Exclusively the Approach that Matters?

Machine Learning to Predict In-Hospital Morbidity and Mortality after Traumatic Brain Injury.

Recently, successful predictions using machine learning (ML) algorithms have been reported in various fields. However, in traumatic brain injury (TBI)...

Robotic direct reading device with spatial, temporal, and PID sensors for laboratory VOC exposure assessment.

This study evaluated a novel robotic direct reading method that used a real-time location system to measure the spatial-concentration distribution of ...

Symmetry of generalized rivalry network models determines patterns of interocular grouping in four-location binocular rivalry.

Previously, symmetry of network models has been proposed to account for interocular grouping during binocular rivalry. Here, we construct and analyze ...

Augmented Bladder Tumor Detection Using Deep Learning.

Adequate tumor detection is critical in complete transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) to reduce cancer recurrence, but up to 20% of bladde...

Accuracy of robotic coil positioning during transcranial magnetic stimulation.

OBJECTIVE: Robotic positioning systems for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) promise improved accuracy and stability of coil placement, but ther...

Minimally invasive nephrectomy for inflammatory renal disease.

OBJECTIVE: Once chronic inflammatory renal disease (IRD) develops, it creates a severe peri-fibrotic process, which makes it a relative contraindicati...

Reply to Franco Gaboardi, Guglielmo Mantica, and Nazareno Suardi's Letter to the Editor re: Giuseppe Simone, Umberto Anceschi, Gabriele Tuderti, et al. Robot-assisted Partial Adrenalectomy for the Treatment of Conn's Syndrome: Surgical Technique, and Perioperative and Functional Outcomes. Eur Urol 2019;75:811-6.

Bio-inspired robotic dog paddling: kinematic and hydro-dynamic analysis.

Research on quadrupedal robots inspired by canids or felids have been widely reported and demonstrated. However, none of these legged robots can deal ...

CIGuide: in situ augmented reality laser guidance.

PURPOSE : A robotic intraoperative laser guidance system with hybrid optic-magnetic tracking for skull base surgery is presented. It provides in situ ...

Behavioural and life-history responses of mosquitofish to biologically inspired and interactive robotic predators.

Invasive alien species threaten biodiversity worldwide and contribute to biotic homogenization, especially in freshwaters, where the ability of native...

2D ultrasound imaging based intra-fraction respiratory motion tracking for abdominal radiation therapy using machine learning.

We have previously developed a robotic ultrasound imaging system for motion monitoring in abdominal radiation therapy. Owing to the slow speed of ultr...

Re: Early Experience with the Senhance®-Laparoscopic/Robotic Platform in the US.

Design of the musculoskeletal leg based on the physiology of mono-articular and biarticular muscles in the human leg.

In a lower extremity musculoskeletal leg, the actuation kinematics define the interaction of the actuators with each other and the environment. Design...