Urology

ADMET Evaluation in Drug Discovery. 18. Reliable Prediction of Chemical-Induced Urinary Tract Toxicity by Boosting Machine Learning Approaches.

Xenobiotic chemicals and their metabolites are mainly excreted out of our bodies by the urinary trac...

[Assessment of diet in patients with chronic kidney diseases without dialysis and relationship with the nutritional status].

BACKGROUND: Diet is one of the pillars of the treatment for patients with chronic kidney disease wit...

Development and Validation of a High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography Method for the Determination of Chemical Purity and Radiochemical Purity of a [Ga]-Labeled Glu-Urea-Lys(Ahx)-HBED-CC (Positron Emission Tomography) Tracer.

: Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) has gained high attention as a useful biomarker in the i...

First Ever Use of Proton Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Delivered with Curative Intent to Bilateral Synchronous Primary Renal Cell Carcinomas.

Limited therapeutic options exist for inoperable bilateral kidney tumors. We report the first ever u...

Early Detection of Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction Using Signal Analysis and Machine Learning: A Dynamic Solution to a Dynamic Problem.

PURPOSE: We sought to define features that describe the dynamic information in diuresis renograms fo...

A new machine-learning method to prognosticate paraquat poisoned patients by combining coagulation, liver, and kidney indices.

The prognosis of paraquat (PQ) poisoning is highly correlated to plasma PQ concentration, which has ...

Loculated transudative pleural effusion masquerading as right upper lobe consolidation in a haemodialysis patient.

Pleural effusion is a common encounter in renal failure patients and frequently possess a diagnostic...

Cervical cancer histology image identification method based on texture and lesion area features.

The issue of an automated approach for detecting cervical cancer is proposed to improve the accuracy...

A novel machine learning approach reveals latent vascular phenotypes predictive of renal cancer outcome.

Gene expression signatures are commonly used as predictive biomarkers, but do not capture structural...

General practitioner perception of prostate-specific antigen testing has improved, but more awareness of prostate cancer risk in younger patients is still awaited.

BACKGROUND: In 2006, a county-wide survey of general practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom (UK) ...

Sub-acute administration of lower doses of nicotine caused sex-dependent improvement of renal function in Wistar rats.

The adverse and beneficial health effects of nicotine (NIC), the major alkaloid found in cigarettes ...

Associations of ambient coarse particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide with the risk of kidney disease: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Experimental evidence and preliminary clinical evidence suggest that environmental air p...

Identification of potentially oncogenic alterations from tumor-only samples reveals Fanconi anemia pathway mutations in bladder carcinomas.

Cancer is caused by germline and somatic mutations, which can share biological features such as amin...

Re: Robot-assisted Salvage Lymph Node Dissection for Clinically Recurrent Prostate Cancer.

Re: Neurovascular Bundle Size Measured on 3.0-T Magnetic Resonance Imaging is Associated with the Recovery of Erectile Function after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

A combined learning algorithm for prostate segmentation on 3D CT images.

PURPOSE: Segmentation of the prostate on CT images has many applications in the diagnosis and treatm...

Investigations on factors influencing HPO-based semantic similarity calculation.

BACKGROUND: Although disease diagnosis has greatly benefited from next generation sequencing technol...

Survivability prediction of colon cancer patients using neural networks.

We utilize deep neural networks to develop prediction models for patient survival and conditional su...

Validation of a Machine Learning Approach for Venous Thromboembolism Risk Prediction in Oncology.

Using kernel machine learning (ML) and random optimization (RO) techniques, we recently developed a ...

Re: Advanced Reconstruction of Vesicourethral Support (ARVUS) during Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy: One-Year Functional Outcomes in a Two-Group Randomised Controlled Trial.

Development of a Natural Language Processing Engine to Generate Bladder Cancer Pathology Data for Health Services Research.

OBJECTIVE: To take the first step toward assembling population-based cohorts of patients with bladde...