Urology

Bladder contractility index in posterior urethral valve: A new marker for early prediction of progression to renal failure.

INTRODUCTION: Posterior urethral valve (PUV) is the most common cause of pediatric end stage renal d...

First Report of NRG Oncology/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 0622: A Phase 2 Trial of Samarium-153 Followed by Salvage Prostatic Fossa Irradiation in High-Risk Clinically Nonmetastatic Prostate Cancer After Radical Prostatectomy.

PURPOSE: To investigate the utility of Sm lexidronam (Quadramet) in the setting of men with prostate...

A novel peptide/FeO@SiO-Au nanocomposite-based fluorescence biosensor for the highly selective and sensitive detection of prostate-specific antigen.

Highly selective and sensitive detection methods are very important for the early diagnosis of prost...

Invited comment to: Laparoscopic inguinal hernioplasty after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy. Sakon M, Sekino Y, Okada M, Seki H, Munakata Y.

Physiological based pharmacokinetic modeling to estimate in vivo Ki of ketoconazole on renal P-gp using human drug-drug interaction study result of fesoterodine and ketoconazole.

This study was conducted to estimate in vivo inhibition constant (Ki) of ketoconazole on renal P-gly...

ATP-binding cassette transporter A1: A promising therapy target for prostate cancer.

ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1) has been found to mediate the transfer of cellular chole...

Learning normalized inputs for iterative estimation in medical image segmentation.

In this paper, we introduce a simple, yet powerful pipeline for medical image segmentation that comb...

PSCA rs1045531 Polymorphism and the Risk of Prostate Cancer in a Chinese Population Undergoing Prostate Biopsy.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: This study explored the association between a single-nucleotide polymorphism...

Machine learning-based quantitative texture analysis of CT images of small renal masses: Differentiation of angiomyolipoma without visible fat from renal cell carcinoma.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of machine-learning based quantitative texture ana...

Searching for prostate cancer by fully automated magnetic resonance imaging classification: deep learning versus non-deep learning.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major cause of death since ancient time documented in Egyptian Ptolemaic ...

A Pneumatic Tactile Sensor for Co-Operative Robots.

Tactile sensors of comprehensive functions are urgently needed for the advanced robot to co-exist an...

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Comparing a Novel Equation With Commonly Used Equations in this Population.

BACKGROUND: Assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is important in kidney transplantation. T...

A Successful Approach to Kidney Transplantation in Patients With Enteric (Secondary) Hyperoxaluria.

BACKGROUND: Enteric hyperoxaluria due to malabsorption may cause chronic oxalate nephropathy and lea...

Fast segmentation of kidney components using random forests and ferns.

PURPOSE: This paper studies the feasibility of developing a fast and accurate automatic kidney compo...

Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification of prostate cancer Gleason score in central gland using multiparametric magnetic resonance images: A cross-validated study.

PURPOSE: To assess the performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification to stratify the G...

Re: Comparison of retroperitoneal and transperitoneal robotic partial nephrectomy for Pentafecta perioperative and renal functional outcomes.

Eight Weeks of Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Infection.

Short treatment duration of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir (LDV/SOF) has been successfully used to treat hepa...

Does magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy improve prostate cancer detection? A comparison of systematic, cognitive fusion and ultrasound fusion prostate biopsy.

BACKGROUND: The increase in the use of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging for the detection ...

Accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimationequations in patients with hematopathy.

Renal dysfunction is a common side-effect of chemotherapeuticagents in patients with hematopathy. Al...

Convolutional Neural Network for Histopathological Analysis of Osteosarcoma.

Pathologists often deal with high complexity and sometimes disagreement over osteosarcoma tumor clas...

Validation of an online risk calculator for the prediction of anastomotic leak after colon cancer surgery and preliminary exploration of artificial intelligence-based analytics.

BACKGROUND: Recently published data support the use of a web-based risk calculator ( www.anastomotic...