Urology

CT2US: Cross-modal transfer learning for kidney segmentation in ultrasound images with synthesized data.

Accurate segmentation of kidney in ultrasound images is a vital procedure in clinical diagnosis and ...

Enzyme-Photocatalyst Tandem Microrobot Powered by Urea for Escherichia coli Biofilm Eradication.

Urinary-based infections affect millions of people worldwide. Such bacterial infections are mainly c...

Quality in MR reporting of the prostate – improving acquisition, the role of AI and future perspectives.

The high quality of MRI reporting of the prostate is the most critical component of the service prov...

Posterior transperitoneal robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in the treatment of renal tumors: Feasibility of a hybrid approach.

PURPOSE: Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) for posterior renal tumors may be performed throu...

Off-clamp robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for purely hilar tumors: Technique, perioperative, oncologic and functional outcomes from a single center series.

OBJECTIVES: Purely hilar lesions and those abutting the main renal artery or vein may be significant...

Technique of en bloc resection of the membranous urethra and bladder during robot-assisted radical cystectomy in patients without simultaneous urethrectomy.

INTRODUCTION: Prophylactic urethrectomy is often performed simultaneously with radical cystectomy (R...

Mid-term functional outcomes of extraperitoneal robot-assisted simple prostatectomy: a single centre experience.

For large prostate volume, open simple prostatectomy (OSP) or holmium laser enucleation are the gold...

Open Radical Cystectomy versus Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Early Outcomes of a Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.

PURPOSE: Radical cystectomy (RC) with urinary diversion (UD) is still considered a complex surgery a...

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Diffusion-weighted MRI Improves Image Quality for Prostatic Imaging.

Background Deep learning reconstruction (DLR) may improve image quality. However, its impact on diff...

Better Image Quality for Diffusion-weighted MRI of the Prostate Using Deep Learning.

Deep learning-based artificial intelligence for prostate cancer detection at biparametric MRI.

PURPOSE: To present fully automated DL-based prostate cancer detection system for prostate MRI.

Dosimetric impact of deep learning-based CT auto-segmentation on radiation therapy treatment planning for prostate cancer.

BACKGROUND: The evaluation of automatic segmentation algorithms is commonly performed using geometri...

Account of Deep Learning-Based Ultrasonic Image Feature in the Diagnosis of Severe Sepsis Complicated with Acute Kidney Injury.

This study was aimed at analyzing the diagnostic value of convolutional neural network models on acc...

Impact of the severity of urethrovesical anastomotic leakage on urinary continence following robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

We assessed whether the severity of anastomotic urinary leakage detected during routine cystourethro...

Assessing pentafecta achievement after robot-assisted radical cystectomy and its association with surgical experience: Results from a high-volume institution.

OBJECTIVES: Radical cystectomy (RC) represents the gold standard treatment for high-risk bladder can...

Does type of robotic platform make a difference in the final cost of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy?

This study evaluates the difference of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) costs in patients...

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI): closing the gap between image analysis and navigation in complex invasive diagnostic procedures.

LITERATURE REVIEW: Cystoscopy is the gold standard for initial macroscopic assessments of the human ...

Upper or lower tract approach for duplex anomalies? A bi-institutional comparative analysis of robot-assisted approaches.

Optimal management of duplication anomalies may include an upper or lower tract surgical approach. I...

Extent of pelvic lymph node dissection improves early oncological outcomes for patients with high-risk prostate cancer without lymph node involvement after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: We investigated the effect of the extent of pelvic lymph node dissection (LND) on bioche...

Malignancy risk stratification of cystic renal lesions based on a contrast-enhanced CT-based machine learning model and a clinical decision algorithm.

OBJECTIVE: To distinguish benign from malignant cystic renal lesions (CRL) using a contrast-enhanced...

Weakly supervised segmentation with cross-modality equivariant constraints.

Weakly supervised learning has emerged as an appealing alternative to alleviate the need for large l...