Urology

Attention-guided multi-scale learning network for automatic prostate and tumor segmentation on MRI.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Image-guided clinical diagnosis can be achieved by automatically and accur...

Comparisons of the Safety and Effectiveness of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Central Renal Angiomyolipomas: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis Study.

To compare the safety and effectiveness of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) laparoscopic ...

Predicting congenital renal tract malformation genes using machine learning.

Congenital renal tract malformations (RTMs) are the major cause of severe kidney failure in children...

FGFR1Pred: an artificial intelligence-based model for predicting fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 inhibitor.

Fibroblast growth factor receptors (FGFRs) are a family of cell surface receptors that bind to fibro...

Tumor microenvironment-based signatures distinguish intratumoral heterogeneity, prognosis, and immunogenomic features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: The tumor microenvironment (TME) performs a crucial function in the tumorigenesis and re...

Performance assessment of variant UNet-based deep-learning dose engines for MR-Linac-based prostate IMRT plans.

. UNet-based deep-learning (DL) architectures are promising dose engines for traditional linear acce...

Editorial Comment to Retrospective evaluation of the improvement in the urinary status-related quality of life after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Improving domain generalization performance for medical image segmentation via random feature augmentation.

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have shown remarkable performance in medical image segmen...

Robot-assisted pelvic and renal surgery compared with laparoscopic or open surgery: Literature review of cost-effectiveness and clinical outcomes.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical experiences and cost-effectiv...

Vesicourethral Anastomosis in Transvesical Single-Port Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: A Technical Description and Perioperative Outcomes.

To describe the technical evolution and perioperative outcomes of vesicourethral anastomosis (VUA) ...

Development, External Validation, and Visualization of Machine Learning Models for Predicting Occurrence of Acute Kidney Injury after Cardiac Surgery.

BACKGROUND: Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI) is a major complication that re...

A two-step deep learning method for 3DCT-2DUS kidney registration during breathing.

This work proposed KidneyRegNet, a novel deep registration pipeline for 3D CT and 2D U/S kidney scan...

Self-removal of catheter after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a feasibility study.

Self-removal of urinary catheter as an option after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has ...

Tumor detection under cystoscopy with transformer-augmented deep learning algorithm.

Accurate tumor detection is critical in cystoscopy to improve bladder cancer resection and decrease ...

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy vs open radical cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

PURPOSE: Even though there isn't enough clinical evidence to demonstrate that robot-assisted radical...

Clustering-based spatial analysis (CluSA) framework through graph neural network for chronic kidney disease prediction using histopathology images.

Machine learning applied to digital pathology has been increasingly used to assess kidney function a...

Open versus robot-assisted radical cystectomy: pentafecta and trifecta achievement comparison from a randomised controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES: To compare University of Southern California (USC) Institute of Urology pentafecta and t...

Editorial for "The Effect of Image Resampling on the Performance of Radiomics-Based Artificial Intelligence in Multicenter Prostate MRI".

Non-invasive Characterization of Glycosuria and Identification of Biomarkers in Diabetic Urine Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Machine Learning Algorithm.

The current study presents a steadfast, simple, and efficient approach for the non-invasive determin...

Artificial intelligence-assisted repurposing of lubiprostone alleviates tubulointerstitial fibrosis.

Tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TIF) is the most prominent cause which leads to chronic kidney disease ...

Evaluation of sexual function after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: A farewell to IIEF questionnaire.

Longevity with localized prostate cancer (PCa) has been achieved, and the contribution of robot-assi...