Surgery

Comment on: cost analysis of assisted robotic sleeve gastrectomy compared to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a single academic center: debunking a myth.

Identification of Hürthle cell cancers: solving a clinical challenge with genomic sequencing and a trio of machine learning algorithms.

BACKGROUND: Identification of Hürthle cell cancers by non-operative fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) of thyroid nodules is challenging. Resultingly, non-cancerous Hürthle lesions were conventionally distinguished from Hürthle cell cancers by histopathological examination of tissue following surgical resection. Reliance on histopathological evaluation requires patients to undergo surgery to obt...

Laparoscopic pediatric pyeloplasty using the Flexdex® articulating needle driver: step-by-step video.

Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) stenosis is the most common cause of pathological neonatal hydronephrosis. UPJ obstruction may be treated conservatively ...

Using a machine learning approach to predict outcome after surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy.

Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) is a spinal cord condition that results in progressive non-traumatic compression of the cervical spinal cord. S...

Utilization of Minimally Invasive Thymectomy and Margin-Negative Resection for Early-Stage Thymoma.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive thymectomy (MIT) has demonstrated improved short-term outcomes compared with open thymectomy (OT). Although adoption of...

Automated feature selection of predictors in electronic medical records data.

The use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) for translational research can be challenging due to difficulty in extracting accurate disease phenotype da...

Low-Invasive Cell Injection based on Rotational Microrobot.

The advancement of cell injections has created a need for accurate, efficient, and low-invasive injections. However, the conventional approaches to re...

Use of a molecular classifier to identify usual interstitial pneumonia in conventional transbronchial lung biopsy samples: a prospective validation study.

BACKGROUND: In the appropriate clinical setting, the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) requires a pattern of usual interstitial pneumon...

BTS-DSN: Deeply supervised neural network with short connections for retinal vessel segmentation.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The condition of vessel of the human eye is an important factor for the diagnosis of ophthalmological diseases. Vessel segme...

Effects of robotic rehabilitation on walking and balance in pediatric patients with hemiparetic cerebral palsy.

BACKGROUND: The most prominent characteristics of hemiparetic cerebral palsy (hCP) children are structural and functional asymmetries. These children ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic midureteral stricture repair and percutaneous stent placement in an infant.

Mid-ureteral strictures in infants are a rare cause of hydronephrosis. In this surgical technique video we demonstrate a repair of a mid-ureteral stri...

Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Soft robotic devices have desirable traits for applications in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), but many interdisciplinary challenges remain unsolved...

Predicting EGFR mutation status in lung adenocarcinoma on computed tomography image using deep learning.

Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) genotyping is critical for treatment guidelines such as the use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in lung adenocar...

Advancing Computational Toxicology in the Big Data Era by Artificial Intelligence: Data-Driven and Mechanism-Driven Modeling for Chemical Toxicity.

In 2016, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act became the first US legislation to advance chemical safety evaluations by ut...

Organic Synapses for Neuromorphic Electronics: From Brain-Inspired Computing to Sensorimotor Nervetronics.

Living organisms have a long evolutionary history that has provided them with functions and structures that enable them to survive in their environmen...

Evolution Strategies in Transaxillary Robotic Thyroidectomy: Considerations on the First 449 Cases Performed.

BACKGROUND: In the past 20 years, the fast spread of new surgical technologies has reached an important peak with the advent of the robotic surgery. M...

Multi-Modal Haptic Feedback for Grip Force Reduction in Robotic Surgery.

Minimally invasive robotic surgery allows for many advantages over traditional surgical procedures, but the loss of force feedback combined with a pot...

Inertia location and slow network modes determine disturbance propagation in large-scale power grids.

Conventional generators in power grids are steadily substituted with new renewable sources of electric power. The latter are connected to the grid via...

Comparison of long-term outcomes of laparoscopic and robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

In this study, we compared the long-term oncological and functional outcomes of laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) and robot-assisted laparoscopic...

Robotic Glove with Soft-Elastic Composite Actuators for Assisting Activities of Daily Living.

Soft robotic hand/gloves for hand rehabilitation can aid the performance of activities of daily living (ADL). Although existing soft robotic hands can...