Urology

Duration and Influencing Factors of Postoperative Urinary Incontinence after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy in a Japanese Community Hospital: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVES: Post-operative urinary incontinence (PUI) after robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is an important complication; PUI occurs immediately after postoperative urethral catheter removal, and, although approximately 90% of patients improve within one year after surgery, it can significantly worsen their quality of life. However, information is lacking on its nature in community h...

Short and Intermediate-Term Outcome of Robot-Assisted Inverted YV-Plasty for Recurrent Bladder Neck Stenosis - a Single Centre Study.

OBJECTIVE: To report the technique and preliminary results for extraperitoneal robot-assisted laparoscopic YV-plasty (RAYV) for refractory bladder neck stenosis (BNS) and vesicoureteral anastomosis stenosis (VUAS).

The devil is in the details: a small-lesion sensitive weakly supervised learning framework for prostate cancer detection and grading.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a significant health concern in aging males, and the diagnosis depends primarily on histopathological assessments to determin...

Evaluation of auto-segmentation for brachytherapy of postoperative cervical cancer using deep learning-based workflow.

. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of brachytherapy (BT) planning structures derived from Deep learning (DL) based auto-segmenta...

Fiber Bundle Image Reconstruction Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Bundle Rotation in Endomicroscopy.

Fiber-bundle endomicroscopy has several recognized drawbacks, the most prominent being the honeycomb effect. We developed a multi-frame super-resoluti...

Transvesical Percutaneous Access Allows for Epidural Anesthesia Without Mechanical Ventilation in Single-Port Robotic Radical and Simple Prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of epidural anesthesia in patients undergoing transvesical single-port (SP) robotic simple and radical prosta...

Cumulative sum analysis of the learning curve of laparoendoscopic single-site robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Radical prostatectomy has become the gold standard for treating localized prostate cancer. Improvement in the single-site technique and su...

Exploring the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Management of Prostate Cancer.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review aims to explore the current state of research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the management of prostate ...

Contribution of Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy to the mechanism of urinary continence as demonstrated by dynamic MRI.

Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been reported to exhibit better postoperative urinary continence, but the reasons behi...

Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction From Freehand Scans Without Tracking.

Transrectal ultrasound is commonly used for guiding prostate cancer biopsy, where 3D ultrasound volume reconstruction is often desired. Current method...

Harnessing Generative Artificial Intelligence to Improve Efficiency Among Urologists: Welcome ChatGPT.

ROBOT Assisted Laparoscopic Surgeries For Nononcological Urologic Disease: Initial Experience With Hugo Ras System.

OBJECTIVE: To report our initial experience with the use of HUGO Robotic Assisted Surgery System (RAS) for nononcological urologic disease.

Impact of perinephric fat volume and the Mayo Adhesive Probability score on time to clamping in robot-assisted partial nephrectomy.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the association of perinephric fat volume (PNFV) and the Mayo Adhesive Probability (MAP) score with time to clamp...

Multi-phase synthetic contrast enhancement in interventional computed tomography for guiding renal cryotherapy.

PURPOSE: Minimally invasive treatments for renal carcinoma offer a low rate of complications and quick recovery. One drawback of the use of computed t...

Comparison of oncological and functional outcomes of perineoscopic radical prostatectomy and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

The aim of this study is to compare the functional, oncological, and complication outcomes of perineoscopic radical prostatectomy (PeRP) and robot-ass...

Predict, diagnose, and treat chronic kidney disease with machine learning: a systematic literature review.

OBJECTIVES: In this systematic review we aimed at assessing how artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML) techniques have been dep...

Deep Learning of Videourodynamics to Classify Bladder Dysfunction Severity in Patients With Spina Bifida.

PURPOSE: Urologists rely heavily on videourodynamics to identify patients with neurogenic bladders who are at risk of upper tract injury, but their in...

Ureteropelvic junction obstruction and renal calculi: Simultaneous treatment by robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty and transcutaneous retrograde flexible ureteroscopy. Technique description and early outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) and renal calculi are associated in 20 to 30% of cases and treatment is mandatory. The simultane...

Single-port robot-assisted perineal radical prostatectomy with the da Vinci XI system: initial experience and learning curve using the cumulative sum method.

BACKGROUND: To evaluate the early functional and oncological outcomes of single-port robot-assisted perineal radical prostatectomy (sp-pRARP) using th...

Patient-specific three-dimensional dose distribution prediction via deep learning for prostate cancer therapy: Improvement with the structure loss.

PURPOSE: Deep learning (DL)-based dose distribution prediction can potentially reduce the cost of inverse planning process. We developed and introduce...