Urology

Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy and Associated Mortality Among Diabetic Adults With and Without Chronic Kidney Disease.

PURPOSE: To estimate prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) among U.S. adults with dia...

Response to Johnston re: MRI Displays the Prostatic Cancer Anatomy and Improves the Bundles Management Before Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy by Bianchi et al. (From: Johnston WK, III. J Endourol 2018;32:322-323).

Predicting Advanced Prostate Cancer from Modeling Early Indications in Biopsy and Prostatectomy Samples via Transductive Semi-Supervised Survival Analysis.

Prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer and the second most common cause of cancer deat...

Comparisons of Pressure-controlled Ventilation with Volume Guarantee and Volume-controlled 1:1 Equal Ratio Ventilation on Oxygenation and Respiratory Mechanics during Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: a Randomized-controlled Trial.

During robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), steep Trendelenburg position and c...

Assessment of specific versus combined purpose knowledge based models in prostate radiotherapy.

Knowledge-based planning (KBP) can be used to improve plan quality, planning speed, and reduce the i...

Automatic Needle Segmentation and Localization in MRI With 3-D Convolutional Neural Networks: Application to MRI-Targeted Prostate Biopsy.

Image guidance improves tissue sampling during biopsy by allowing the physician to visualize the tip...

The future is coming: promising perspectives regarding the use of machine learning in renal transplantation.

INTRODUCTION: The prediction of post transplantation outcomes is clinically important and involves s...

[Hepatitis B and renal failure: prevalence and associated factors in National University Hospital Center of Cotonou].

INTRODUCTION: the association between the kidneys and hepatitis B is complex. This study aims to det...

An evaluation method of risk grades for prostate cancer using similarity measure of cubic hesitant fuzzy sets.

Prostate cancer (PC) is more common cancer in older men. Then, the existing evaluation method of PC ...

Evaluation of robot-assisted MRI-guided prostate biopsy: needle path analysis during clinical trials.

While the interaction between a needle and the surrounding tissue is known to cause a significant ta...

Minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedure for kidney transplantation among morbidly obese: Positive outcomes at 5 years post-transplant.

The pre-transplant weight loss required of end-stage renal disease patients is often unachievable. T...

Path R-CNN for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Gleason Grading of Histological Images.

Prostate cancer is the most common and second most deadly form of cancer in men in the United States...

Editorial Comment to Predictors of biochemical recurrence after Retzius-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: Analysis of 359 cases with a median follow-up period of 26 months.

Obesity and chronic kidney disease progression-the role of a new adipocytokine: C1q/tumour necrosis factor-related protein-1.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a risk factor for incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the general popula...

askMUSIC: Leveraging a Clinical Registry to Develop a New Machine Learning Model to Inform Patients of Prostate Cancer Treatments Chosen by Similar Men.

BACKGROUND: Clinical registries provide physicians with a means for making data-driven decisions but...

Outcome of kidney function in adults on long-term home parenteral nutrition for chronic intestinal failure.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate kidney function outcome in adults on home parentera...

Progress in the Development and Challenges for the Use of Artificial Kidneys and Wearable Dialysis Devices.

BACKGROUND: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patien...

STRAINet: Spatially Varying sTochastic Residual AdversarIal Networks for MRI Pelvic Organ Segmentation.

Accurate segmentation of pelvic organs is important for prostate radiation therapy. Modern radiation...

Diagnosis of T-cell-mediated kidney rejection in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues using RNA-Seq-based machine learning algorithms.

Molecular diagnosis is being increasingly used in transplant pathology to render more objective and ...

FRAX Calculated without BMD Resulting in a Higher Fracture Risk Than That Calculated with BMD in Women with Early Breast Cancer.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of including the mea...

Diagnosis of urinary tract infection based on artificial intelligence methods.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common disease affecting the vast major...