Urology

Machine Learning-Aided Chronic Kidney Disease Diagnosis Based on Ultrasound Imaging Integrated with Computer-Extracted Measurable Features.

Although ultrasound plays an important role in the diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD), image ...

Impact of nerve sparing in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy on the risk of positive surgical margin and biochemical recurrence.

OBJECTIVES: Nerve sparing may increase positive surgical margin rate during radical prostatectomy. O...

Approaching automated applicator digitization from a new angle: Using sagittal images to improve deep learning accuracy and robustness in high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy.

PURPOSE: To automate the segmentation of treatment applicators on computed tomography (CT) images fo...

Click-on fluorescence detectors: using robotic surgical instruments to characterize molecular tissue aspects.

Fluorescence imaging is increasingly being implemented in surgery. One of the drawbacks of its appli...

Characterization of the Impacts of Living at High Altitude in Taif: Oxidative Stress Biomarker Alterations and Immunohistochemical Changes.

At high elevations, the human body experiences a number of pathological, physiological, and biochemi...

Effect of prostate and bony pelvic dimensions measured by preoperative magnetic resonance imaging on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

Bone pelvic dimensions and body habitus may have effects on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RA...

Artificial intelligence in bladder cancer: current trends and future possibilities.

Endoscopic Enucleation of the Prostate Is Better than Robot-assisted Simple Prostatectomy.

In 2022, endoscopic enucleation of the prostate (EEP) is the treatment of choice for benign prostati...

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in the treatment of patients with clinically high-risk localized and locally advanced prostate cancer: single surgeons functional and oncologic outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Optimal treatment approaches for high-risk localized and locally advanced prostate cance...

Effect of Papaverine on Renal Artery Blood Flow during Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Randomized Controlled Study.

BACKGROUND: During robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN), renal artery clamping is necessary to ...

Association of Open vs Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy With Mortality and Perioperative Outcomes Among Patients With Bladder Cancer in Sweden.

IMPORTANCE: Mortality rates resulting from bladder cancer have remained unchanged for more than 30 y...

Validation of standardized training system for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: comparison of perioperative and surgical outcomes between experienced surgeons and novice surgeons at a low-volume institute in Japan.

INTRODUCTION: Although robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has become a standard treatment m...

Heart and bladder detection and segmentation on FDG PET/CT by deep learning.

PURPOSE: Positron emission tomography (PET)/ computed tomography (CT) has been extensively used to q...

3D printed patient-specific prostate cancer models to guide nerve-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a systematic review.

Precise knowledge of each patient's index cancer and surrounding anatomy is required for nerve-spari...

Effect of dataset size, image quality, and image type on deep learning-based automatic prostate segmentation in 3D ultrasound.

Three-dimensional (3D) transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) is utilized in prostate cancer diagnosis and tr...

The effect of preoperative membranous urethral length on likelihood of postoperative urinary incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy affects many men. In addition to surgic...

Deep learning approach identified a gene signature predictive of the severity of renal damage caused by chronic cadmium accumulation.

Epidemiology studies have indicated that environmental cadmium exposure, even at low levels, will re...

The Impact of Postoperative Renal Function Recovery after Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy in Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma.

Background and objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the association between warm ischemic time (...

Implementation of Hospital-to-Home Model for Nutritional Nursing Management of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Combined with CT Internet.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the application value of "Internet + hospital-to-home (H...

Are there disparities in access to robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery among pediatric urology patients? US institutional experience.

OBJECTIVE: Literature suggests access to robotic surgery varies by race and payer status. We seek to...

Robot-assisted Simple Prostatectomy Is Better than Endoscopic Enucleation of the Prostate.

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy represents a solid treatment option for benign prostatic obstruc...