Surgery

[Robotic-assisted supraomohyoid neck dissection via retroauricular hairline incision].

To explore the feasibility of using da Vinci Surgical System to perform supraomohyoid neck dissection (SOND) to avoid visible scar and reduce trauma. Between September 2017 and December 2018, twenty patients (two females and 18 males, mean age, 54.8 years) with oral cancer treated in the Department of Stomatology, Hainan Hospital of General Hospital of Chinese PLA were enrolled in this study. Ei...

Computer Vision Analysis of Intraoperative Video: Automated Recognition of Operative Steps in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

OBJECTIVE(S): To develop and assess AI algorithms to identify operative steps in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG).

[Robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy].

Currently, partial nephrectomy as a nephron-sparing surgery is the standard treatment method of malignant kidney tumors stage T1 in the absence of con...

Automatic Methods to Extract Prescription Status Quality Measures from Unstructured Health Records.

Hospital systems frequently implement quality measures to quantify healthcare processes and patient outcomes. One such measure that has previously bee...

Renal Biopsy Recommendation Based on Text Understanding.

Due to various etiologies and pathogenesis of kidney diseases, an invasive procedure called renal biopsy may be needed to determine the specific type ...

Relationship Between Very Cold Outside Weather and Surgical Outcome: Integrating Shallow and Deep Artificial Neural Nets.

Patients' hospital length of stay (LOS) as a surgical outcome is important indicator of quality of care. We used EMR data to build artificial neural n...

Artificial Intelligence: Can Information be Transformed into Intelligence in Surgical Education?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being rapidly integrated into various medical applications. Although early application of AI has been achieved in imag...

The Use of Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Plastic Surgery.

BACKGROUND: The use of social media to discuss topics related to and within plastic surgery has become widespread in recent years; however, it remains...

Machine learning applications for the prediction of surgical site infection in neurological operations.

OBJECTIVE: Surgical site infection (SSI) following a neurosurgical operation is a complication that impacts morbidity, mortality, and economics. Curre...

Validation of a Semiautomated Natural Language Processing-Based Procedure for Meta-Analysis of Cancer Susceptibility Gene Penetrance.

PURPOSE: Quantifying the risk of cancer associated with pathogenic mutations in germline cancer susceptibility genes-that is, penetrance-enables the p...

[Accuracy Verification of Robot-assisted Mandibular Reconstruction Surgery].

Mandible is an important bone of the head and neck. Mandibular defects not only affect patient's face, but also impede patient's daily functions, such...

Robotics and ophthalmology: Are we there yet?

Ophthalmology is a field that is now seeing the integration of robotics in its surgical procedures and interventions. Assistance facilitated by robots...

[Current Status of Robotic Research for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders].

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can face lifelong challenges. There are a variety of therapeutic and educational approaches, any of w...

Shoulder-mounted Robot for MRI-Guided Arthrography: Clinically Optimized System.

This paper introduces our compact and lightweight patient-mounted MRI-compatible 4 degree-of-freedom (DOF) robot with an improved transmission system ...

1D Convolutional Neural Networks for Estimation of Compensatory Reserve from Blood Pressure Waveforms.

We propose a Deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for computing a Compensatory Reserve Metric (CRM) for trauma victims suffering from ...

Application of Machine Learning to Prediction of Surgical Site Infection.

Surgical site infections are an important health concern, particularly in low-resource areas, where there is poor access to clinical facilities or tra...

Representation Learning of 3D Brain Angiograms, an Application for Cerebral Vasospasm Prediction.

Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States. Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a type of stroke often caused by the spontaneous rup...

CLPNet: Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery Support With Deep Learning.

Cleft lip and palate is the most common congenital malformation in oral and maxillofacial region. As a kind of facial plastic surgery, the most import...

Integration of Forearm sEMG Signals with IMU Sensors for Trajectory Planning and Control of Assistive Robotic Arm.

Patients with issues such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis have difficulties with activities of daily living (ADL). Their...

A Novel Underactuated Robotic Finger with Variable Stiffness Joints.

Existing robotic hands mostly consist of rigid finger mechanism with constant joint stiffness, leading to poor handling performance and even unexpecte...