Urology

Artificial Intelligence to Patient-Targeted Health Information on Kidney Stone Disease: Comment.

Exploring "Equigenesis" in the Associations Between Green Space and Kidney Health Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults Using Street View Data.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This study systematically explores the association between community green space and preventing kidney failure among middle-aged and older adults in China, using street view data.

Artificial Intelligence-powered automatic volume calculation in medical images - available tools, performance and challenges for nuclear medicine.

Volumetry is crucial in oncology and endocrinology, for diagnosis, treatment planning, and evaluating response to therapy for several diseases. The in...

Weight change in chronic kidney disease: Association with mortality and kidney function.

BACKGROUND: Excess body weight is a risk factor for the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but weight loss in CKD has been associated with h...

Predicting Psoriatic Arthritis in Psoriasis Patients - A Swiss Registry Study.

BACKGROUND: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a prevalent comorbidity among patients with psoriasis, heavily contributing to their burden of disease, usual...

Full robotic cholecystectomy: first worldwide experiences with HUGO RAS surgical platform.

BACKGROUND: The Hugo RAS™ system (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA), approved for gynaecological and urological procedures, has been recently certified...

Facemap: a framework for modeling neural activity based on orofacial tracking.

Recent studies in mice have shown that orofacial behaviors drive a large fraction of neural activity across the brain. To understand the nature and fu...

Creation of a Novel, Race-Adjusted, and Risk-Adapted Scoring System to Predict Positive Surgical Margins and Prolonged Operative Time During Robotic Radical Prostatectomy.

To compare racial differences and pelvis dimensions between Caucasians and African Americans (AAs) and to develop a risk calculator and scoring syste...

Central Auditory Processing Impairment in Renal Failure.

UNLABELLED: This study is the first to investigate central auditory processing impairment in patients with slight decrease in renal function (PSR), wh...

Prediction and related genes of cancer distant metastasis based on deep learning.

Cancer metastasis is one of the main causes of cancer progression and difficulty in treatment. Genes play a key role in the process of cancer metastas...

Epidemiological description and trajectories of patients with prostate cancer in Denmark: an observational study of 7448 patients.

OBJECTIVE: Identification of patients at high risk of aggressive prostate cancer is a major clinical challenge. With the view of developing artificial...

Safety and Reliability of a Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Telesurgery System: Expanding Indications in Urological Surgery.

Convolutional neural network-based kidney volume estimation from low-dose unenhanced computed tomography scans.

PURPOSE: Kidney volume is important in the management of renal diseases. Unfortunately, the currently available, semi-automated kidney volume determin...

Correlating Deep Learning-Based Automated Reference Kidney Histomorphometry with Patient Demographics and Creatinine.

KEY POINTS: The authors leverage the unique benefits of panoptic segmentation to perform the largest ever quantitation of reference kidney morphometry...

The pen is mightier than the machine-artificial intelligence image generators in urology.

Biochemical outcome after curative treatment for localized prostate cancer with external beam radiotherapy: a cross-sectional study.

Although many patients who receive definitive radiotherapy (RT) for localised prostate cancer (CaP) experience long-term disease-free survival and bet...

Human Exposure Levels of Volatile Organic Compounds in E-waste Recycling Area: Get Insight into Impacts of Manipulation Mode and Associations with Oxidative Stress Markers.

There is currently a dearth of evidence regarding the impact of the manipulation mode on human occupational exposure to volatile organic compounds (VO...

Immune monitoring of allograft status in kidney transplant recipients.

Kidney transplant patients require careful management of immunosuppression to avoid rejection while minimizing the risk of infection and malignancy fo...

Perioperative and Survival Outcomes of Patients Treated With Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy and Percutaneous Microwave Ablation for Small Renal Masses: A Single Center Experience.

BACKGROUND: Robot assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) and microwave ablation (MWA) are 2 of the most advanced techniques for the management of localiz...

Combined colour deconvolution and artificial intelligence approach for region-selective immunohistochemical labelling quantification: The example of alpha smooth muscle actin in mouse kidney.

Immunohistochemical (IHC) localisation of protein expression is a widely used tool in pathology. This is semi-quantitative and exhibits substantial in...