Urology

Comparison of parenchymal volume loss assessed by three-dimensional computed tomography volumetry and renal functional recovery between conventional and robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

OBJECTIVES: We retrospectively investigated if robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (RAPN) contributes to a decrease in resected parenchymal volume (RPV), an increase in postoperative parenchymal volume (PPV), and an improvement of postoperative renal function when compared with conventional laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) using a three-dimensional image analysis system.

Toward autonomous robotic prostate biopsy: a pilot study.

PURPOSE: We present the validation of PROST, a robotic device for prostate biopsy. PROST is designed to minimize human error by introducing some autonomy in the execution of the key steps of the procedure, i.e., target selection, image fusion and needle positioning. The robot allows executing a targeted biopsy through ultrasound (US) guidance and fusion with magnetic resonance (MR) images, where t...

Management of urethral strictures and stenosis caused by the endo-urological treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia-a single-center experience.

OBJECTIVE: Urethral stricture disease after endo-urological treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a sparsely described complication. We d...

Re: Loc Trinh, Samuel Mingo, Erik B. Vanstrum, et al. Survival Analysis Using Surgeon Skill Metrics and Patient Factors to Predict Urinary Continence Recovery After Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2021.04.001.

Evaluation of Iron Status by Reticulocyte Haemoglobin Content (Chr) in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Haemodialysis and Erythropoietin.

Diagnosing iron deficiency with currently available tests is difficult in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) due to the inflammatory state ass...

Reply to Nikolaos Grivas, Nikolaos Kalampokis, and Henk van der Poel's Letter to the Editor re: Loc Trinh, Samuel Mingo, Erik B. Vanstrum, et al. Survival Analysis Using Surgeon Skill Metrics and Patient Factors to Predict Urinary Continence Recovery After Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2021.04.001.

Esophagus Segmentation in CT Images via Spatial Attention Network and STAPLE Algorithm.

One essential step in radiotherapy treatment planning is the organ at risk of segmentation in Computed Tomography (CT). Many recent studies have focus...

Robotic salvage pelvic lymph node dissection for locoregional recurrence after radical prostatectomy: a single institution experience.

OBJECTIVES: To assess treatment response (PSA < 0.2 ng/ml), need for additional therapy and complication rate after robot assisted salvage pelvic lymp...

Molecular insights on ABL kinase activation using tree-based machine learning models and molecular docking.

Abelson kinase (c-Abl) is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase involved in several biological processes essential for cell differentiation, migration, proli...

Predicting prostate cancer specific-mortality with artificial intelligence-based Gleason grading.

BACKGROUND: Gleason grading of prostate cancer is an important prognostic factor, but suffers from poor reproducibility, particularly among non-subspe...

ABO blood group system and risk of positive surgical margins in patients treated with robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: results in 1114 consecutive patients.

To test the hypothesis of associations between the ABO blood group system (ABO-bg) and prostate cancer (PCa) features in the surgical specimen of pati...

A Wide-Range Stiffness-Tunable Soft Actuator Inspired by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges.

Achieving both high compliance and stiffness is a key issue in stiffness-tunable soft robots. A wide-range variable-stiffness method keeping pure soft...

Deep learning-based synthetic CT generation for MR-only radiotherapy of prostate cancer patients with 0.35T MRI linear accelerator.

PURPOSE: To develop a deep learning model to generate synthetic CT for MR-only radiotherapy of prostate cancer patients treated with 0.35 T MRI linear...

Harnessing clinical annotations to improve deep learning performance in prostate segmentation.

PURPOSE: Developing large-scale datasets with research-quality annotations is challenging due to the high cost of refining clinically generated markup...

Robot-assisted Versus Open Radical Cystectomy in Bladder Cancer: An Economic Evaluation Alongside a Multicentre Comparative Effectiveness Study.

BACKGROUND: Open radical cystectomy (ORC) is regarded as the standard treatment for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, but robot-assisted radical cystect...

ASO Author Reflections: Is Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion the Way Forward?

Quality control stress test for deep learning-based diagnostic model in digital pathology.

Digital pathology provides a possibility for computational analysis of histological slides and automatization of routine pathological tasks. Histologi...

A hierarchical deep reinforcement learning framework for intelligent automatic treatment planning of prostate cancer intensity modulated radiation therapy.

We have previously proposed an intelligent automatic treatment planning (IATP) framework that builds a virtual treatment planner network (VTPN) to ope...

A risk grouping algorithm for predicting factors of persistently elevated prostate-specific antigen in patients following robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: After radical prostatectomy, prostate-specific antigen(PSA) value measuring ≥0.1 ng/mL is defined as persistent PSA(pPSA) and in many studi...

Perioperative Outcomes of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Versus Extracorporeal Urinary Diversion.

PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate and compare the perioperative outcomes of intracorporeal urinary diversion (ICUD) versus extracorporea...