Urology

Evaluation of a deep learning-based pelvic synthetic CT generation technique for MRI-based prostate proton treatment planning.

The purpose of this work is to validate the application of a deep learning-based method for pelvic s...

Progression of Metabolic Acidosis in Chronic Kidney Disease.

BACKGROUND: Metabolic acidosis, which is classified into either high anion gap type (high-AGMA) or n...

Foam Sclerotherapy for Cyst Volume Reduction in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study.

RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common inher...

Synthetic MRI-aided multi-organ segmentation on male pelvic CT using cycle consistent deep attention network.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Manual contouring is labor intensive, and subject to variations in operator ...

Re: Robotically-Assisted Sonic Therapy for Renal Ablation in a Live Porcine Model: Initial Preclinical Results.

Re: A Multi-Institutional Report of Peri-Operative and Functional Outcomes after Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy in Patients with a Solitary Kidney.

Re: Lorenzo Marconi, Thomas Stonier, Rafael Tourinho-Barbosa, et al. Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy After Focal Therapy: Oncological, Functional Outcomes and Predictors of Recurrence. Eur Urol 2019;76:27-30: Salvage Robotic Radical Prostatectomy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer After Focal Therapy.

The ethical, legal and social implications of using artificial intelligence systems in breast cancer care.

Breast cancer care is a leading area for development of artificial intelligence (AI), with applicati...

The Use of Transdermal Estrogen in Castrate-resistant, Steroid-refractory Prostate Cancer.

BACKGROUND: Androgen-deprivation therapy is the mainstay of treatment for metastatic prostate cancer...

Changes of Cerebral Blood Volume During Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Observational Prospective Study Using Near-Infrared Time-Resolved Spectroscopy by Tanaka et al. (From: Tanaka N, Yamamoto M, Abe T, et al. J Endourol 2019;33:995-1001; DOI: 10.1089/end.2019.0217).

Re: Recovery of Pad-Free Continence in Elderly Men Does Not Differ from Younger Men Undergoing Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy for Aggressive Prostate Cancer.

Re: Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: Is Routine Urinary Catheterization Still Mandatory in the Era of Enhanced Recovery?

Detecting Prostate Cancer with Deep Learning for MRI: A Small Step Forward.

Classification of Cancer at Prostate MRI: Deep Learning versus Clinical PI-RADS Assessment.

Background Men suspected of having clinically significant prostate cancer (sPC) increasingly undergo...

Generic Isolated Cell Image Generator.

Building automated cancer screening systems based on image analysis is currently a hot topic in comp...

Fast and Accurate Bacterial Species Identification in Urine Specimens Using LC-MS/MS Mass Spectrometry and Machine Learning.

Fast identification of microbial species in clinical samples is essential to provide an appropriate ...

Optimizing robot motion for robotic ultrasound-guided radiation therapy.

An important aspect of robotic radiation therapy is active compensation of target motion. Recently, ...

Effect of bladder neck sparing at robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy on postoperative continence rates and biochemical recurrence.

OBJECTIVES: Previous studies reported improved continence recovery by bladder neck sparing (BNS) in ...

Semi-supervised mp-MRI data synthesis with StitchLayer and auxiliary distance maximization.

The availability of a large amount of annotated data is critical for many medical image analysis app...

Deep Learning-Based Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer From Histopathology Images-Role of Multiscale Decision Aggregation and Data Augmentation.

Visual inspection of histopathology images of stained biopsy tissue by expert pathologists is the st...

Machine learning method for the management of acute kidney injury: more than just treating biomarkers individually.