Urology

Deep Attentive Features for Prostate Segmentation in 3D Transrectal Ultrasound.

Automatic prostate segmentation in transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images is of essential importance f...

Neural network and support vector machine for the prediction of chronic kidney disease: A comparative study.

This paper aims to assist in the prevention of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by utilizing machine lea...

Deep Learning for Real-time, Automatic, and Scanner-adapted Prostate (Zone) Segmentation of Transrectal Ultrasound, for Example, Magnetic Resonance Imaging-transrectal Ultrasound Fusion Prostate Biopsy.

BACKGROUND: Although recent advances in multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) led to an i...

Association of nonalcoholic fatty liver and chronic kidney disease: An analysis of 37,825 cases from health checkup center in Taiwan.

OBJECTIVE: Nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) share common pathogenic...

Accuracy of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Universal Surgical Risk Calculator in Predicting Complications Following Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy at a National Comprehensive Cancer Center.

There is paucity of literature about the validation of the American College of Surgeons National Su...

Comparison of orthogonal NLP methods for clinical phenotyping and assessment of bone scan utilization among prostate cancer patients.

OBJECTIVE: Clinical care guidelines recommend that newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients at high ...

Specific impact of past and new major cardiovascular events on acute kidney injury and end-stage renal disease risks in diabetes: a dynamic view.

BACKGROUND: Interconnections between major cardiovascular events (MCVEs) and renal events are recogn...

Re: What is the role of NeuroSAFE in robotic radical prostatectomy?

Re: Health Economic Analysis of Open and Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Surgery for Prostate Cancer Within the Prospective Multicentre LAPPRO Trial.

Automatic PET cervical tumor segmentation by combining deep learning and anatomic prior.

Cervical tumor segmentation on 3D FDG PET images is a challenging task because of the proximity betw...

A Novel CNN-Based CAD System for Early Assessment of Transplanted Kidney Dysfunction.

This paper introduces a deep-learning based computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) system for the early det...

Comparison and development of machine learning tools in the prediction of chronic kidney disease progression.

BACKGROUND: Urinary protein quantification is critical for assessing the severity of chronic kidney ...

Prostate cancer detection using residual networks.

PURPOSE: To automatically identify regions where prostate cancer is suspected on multi-parametric ma...

Generating automated kidney transplant biopsy reports combining molecular measurements with ensembles of machine learning classifiers.

We previously reported a system for assessing rejection in kidney transplant biopsies using microarr...

Will Favourable Functional Results with Salvage Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Increase the Uptake of Primary Focal Therapy for Localised Prostate Cancer?

Fast and reliable determination of Escherichia coli susceptibility to antibiotics: Infrared microscopy in tandem with machine learning algorithms.

Antimicrobial drugs have an important role in controlling bacterial infectious diseases. However, th...

Machine learning for the prediction of volume responsiveness in patients with oliguric acute kidney injury in critical care.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Excess fluid balance in acute kidney injury (AKI) may be harmful, and con...

Stochastic frontier analysis as knowledge-based model to improve sparing of organs-at-risk for VMAT-treated prostate cancer.

Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) is used as a novel knowledge-based technique in order to develop ...

Robot-Assisted Simple Prostatectomy: Illustration of a Simplified Extraperitoneal Transcapsular Technique.

Robot-assisted simple prostatectomy (RASP) performed with the extraperitoneal (EP) technique (RASP-...

Unsupervised tumor detection in Dynamic PET/CT imaging of the prostate.

Early detection and localization of prostate tumors pose a challenge to the medical community. Sever...

Oncologic outcomes in patients treated with endoscopic robot assisted simple enucleation (ERASE) for renal cell carcinoma: Results from a tertiary referral center.

INTRODUCTION: Open Simple Enucleation (OSE) has been demonstrated to be an oncologically safe altern...