Urology

Robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy for endometrial cancer in a patient with Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome.

Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome, a rare Mullerian duct anomaly, includes a triad of uterine didelp...

Quantitative assessment of inflammatory infiltrates in kidney transplant biopsies using multiplex tyramide signal amplification and deep learning.

Delayed graft function (DGF) is a strong risk factor for development of interstitial fibrosis and tu...

MRI and CT bladder segmentation from classical to deep learning based approaches: Current limitations and lessons.

Precise determination and assessment of bladder cancer (BC) extent of muscle invasion involvement gu...

A deep learning-based framework for segmenting invisible clinical target volumes with estimated uncertainties for post-operative prostate cancer radiotherapy.

In post-operative radiotherapy for prostate cancer, precisely contouring the clinical target volume ...

Re: Three-dimensional-printed soft kidney model for surgical simulation of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: A proof-of-concept study.

Discovery of primary prostate cancer biomarkers using cross cancer learning.

Prostate cancer (PCa), the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, is a relatively slo...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery for treatment of urinary tract stones in children: report of a multicenter international experience.

This study aimed to report a multi-institutional experience with robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery...

Development and head-to-head comparison of machine-learning models to identify patients requiring prostate biopsy.

BACKGROUND: Machine learning has many attractive theoretic properties, specifically, the ability to ...

ESUR/ESUI position paper: developing artificial intelligence for precision diagnosis of prostate cancer using magnetic resonance imaging.

Artificial intelligence developments are essential to the successful deployment of community-wide, M...

Male pelvic multi-organ segmentation on transrectal ultrasound using anchor-free mask CNN.

PURPOSE: Current prostate brachytherapy uses transrectal ultrasound images for implant guidance, whe...

Can robot-assisted kidney transplantation provide higher quality of life than open kidney transplantation during the early postoperative period?

PURPOSE: Purpose of this study is to investigate the quality of life (QoL) in patients with end-stag...

[Robot-assisted laparoscopic bladder diverticulum resection (RABDR)].

AIMS: Since October 2018, urinary bladder diverticulum resections at our Department of Urology have ...

Greater Renal Function Benefit from Enucleation Technique for More Complex Renal Tumors in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy.

Tumor enucleation technique in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) reportedly contributes to ...

Comparison of machine learning and logistic regression models in predicting acute kidney injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

INTRODUCTION: We aimed to assess whether machine learning models are superior at predicting acute ki...

Extraperitoneal Laparoscopic Versus Transperitoneal Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Approaches for Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection During Radical Prostatectomy.

We aim to directly compare the feasibility and safety of extended pelvic lymph node dissection (PLN...

Digital Frozen Sections with Fluorescence Confocal Microscopy During Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy: Surgical Technique.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) involves a tradeoff between oncological cont...

Development of a transperineal prostate biopsy robot guided by MRI-TRUS image.

BACKGROUND: In the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided transperineal prostate biopsy, doctors deter...

Deep learning approach to predict lymph node metastasis directly from primary tumour histology in prostate cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To develop a new digital biomarker based on the analysis of primary tumour tissue by a co...

Clinical use of machine learning-based pathomics signature for diagnosis and survival prediction of bladder cancer.

Traditional histopathology performed by pathologists by the naked eye is insufficient for accurate a...

Impact of MRI/US fusion-guided prostate biopsy on biopsy-naïve patients: A single urologist's experience.

OBJECTIVES: To report our experience with imaging-guided targeted prostate biopsy (IGTpBx) for patie...

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Model to Quantify Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy From Kidney Ultrasonography Images.

IMPORTANCE: Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) is a strong indicator of decline in kid...