Urology

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 modality in patients with prostate cancer (PCa), RARP is a complicated and difficult surgical procedure due to the risk of serious surgery-related complications. This study aimed to evaluate the validation of a standardized training system for RARP in patients with PCa at a single institute.

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 quantify metabolically active tumors in various oncology indications. However, FDG-PET/CT often encounters false positives in tumor detection due to fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) accumulation from the heart and bladder that often exhibit similar FDG uptake as tumors. Thus, it is necessary to eliminate thi...

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-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (NS-RARP)....

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 treatment, necessitating time-consuming manual prost...

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 surgical and patient factors, longer preoperative membra...

Improving Diagnosis Through Digital Pathology: Proof-of-Concept Implementation Using Smart Contracts and Decentralized File Storage.

BACKGROUND: Recent advancements in digital pathology resulting from advances in imaging and digitization have increased the convenience and usability ...

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 result in chronic cadmium accumulation in the kidney...

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 (WIT) and postoperative renal function using Trifec...

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 (H2H)" nutritional care model using the improved wav...

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 investigate whether disparities exist in robot-as...

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

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy represents a solid treatment option for benign prostatic obstruction in patients with large prostate glands. This ...

Single port robotic assisted sacrocolpopexy: technique and tips.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Sacrocolpopexy is the most durable surgical procedure for the treatment of symptomatic pelvic organ prolapse (Maher et al...

Dosimetric assessment of patient dose calculation on a deep learning-based synthesized computed tomography image for adaptive radiotherapy.

PURPOSE: Dose computation using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images is inaccurate for the purpose of adaptive treatment planning. The main goa...

Feasibility of a deep learning-based diagnostic platform to evaluate lower urinary tract disorders in men using simple uroflowmetry.

PURPOSE: To diagnose lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in a noninvasive manner, we created a prediction model for bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) a...

Robotic pyelolithotomy in a solitary pelvic kidney complicated with fulminant Clostridium difficile: a case report.

BACKGROUND: Robotic-assisted surgeries have gradually become the standard of care for many procedures, especially in the field of urology. Despite the...

Concurrent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy and robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for patients with synchronous prostate cancer and small renal tumor: A case series of five patients.

Robotic surgery has become widely used in the field of urology. We experienced concurrent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and robot-assist...

Medical image diagnosis of prostate tumor based on PSP-Net+VGG16 deep learning network.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer of the male reproductive system. With the development of medical imaging technolog...

Automated quality assessment of large digitised histology cohorts by artificial intelligence.

Research using whole slide images (WSIs) of histopathology slides has increased exponentially over recent years. Glass slides from retrospective cohor...

Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Images in the Assessment of Bladder Tumor Health Monitoring under Deep Learning Algorithms.

This study was aimed at exploring the application value of three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound based on deep learning and continued nursing health monit...

Unsupervised machine learning for identifying important visual features through bag-of-words using histopathology data from chronic kidney disease.

Pathologists use visual classification to assess patient kidney biopsy samples when diagnosing the underlying cause of kidney disease. However, the as...