Urology

Outcomes of Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Clinical T3a Renal Masses: A Multicenter Analysis.

BACKGROUND: Use of partial nephrectomy (PN) in T3 renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is controversial.

Noninvasive diagnostic of periprosthetic joint infection by urinary peptide markers: A preliminary study.

Previous immunohistochemical analyses revealed altered protein expression in the periprosthetic membranes of patients with periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Proteins are degraded to peptides that may pass the blood-kidney barrier depending on their size. The aim of this study was to evaluate if PJI can be diagnosed based on the urinary peptide excretion pattern. Thirty patients undergoing remo...

Synthetic Elastography Using B-Mode Ultrasound Through a Deep Fully Convolutional Neural Network.

Shear-wave elastography (SWE) permits local estimation of tissue elasticity, an important imaging marker in biomedicine. This recently developed, adva...

Deep convolution neural networks based artifact suppression in under-sampled radial acquisitions of myocardial T mapping images.

We developed a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) based method to remove streaking artefact from accelerated radial acquisitions of myocardial T ...

Population-Based Screening for Endometrial Cancer: Human vs. Machine Intelligence.

Incidence and mortality rates of endometrial cancer are increasing, leading to increased interest in endometrial cancer risk prediction and stratifica...

Automatic recognition of bladder tumours using deep learning technology and its clinical application.

BACKGROUND: Bladder cancer is a kind of tumors with a high recurrence rate. The improvement of the cure rate and prognosis of bladder tumor depends on...

Safety and effectiveness of ipragliflozin in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and impaired renal function: subgroup analysis of a 3-year post-marketing surveillance study (STELLA-LONG TERM).

STELLA-LONG TERM, a 3-year post-marketing surveillance study, evaluated the safety and effectiveness of the sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor i...

Comparison of Prostate MRI Lesion Segmentation Agreement Between Multiple Radiologists and a Fully Automatic Deep Learning System.

PURPOSE:  A recently developed deep learning model (U-Net) approximated the clinical performance of radiologists in the prediction of clinically signi...

Test-time adaptable neural networks for robust medical image segmentation.

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) work very well for supervised learning problems when the training dataset is representative of the variations exp...

Renal function in children infected with : a case-control study of an endemic Ghanaian community.

Schistosomiasis has been associated with kidney diseases leading to serious health problems especially in advanced cases. Most studies have used renal...

Longitudinal analysis of trifecta outcome in Japanese patients with prostate cancer following robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

PURPOSE: To analyze the trifecta outcome (continence, potency, and cancer control) longitudinally using robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatect...

Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: A New Standard of Urinary Diversion.

To summarize the current evidence on robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) with intracorporeal urinary diversion (ICUD) and compare perioperative ...

A real-time system using deep learning to detect and track ureteral orifices during urinary endoscopy.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To automatically identify and locate various types and states of the ureteral orifice (UO) in real endoscopy scenarios, we d...

Development and evaluation of a deep learning based artificial intelligence for automatic identification of gold fiducial markers in an MRI-only prostate radiotherapy workflow.

Identification of prostate gold fiducial markers in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images is challenging when CT images are not available, due to mi...

Accuracy of Touch-Based Registration During Robotic Image-Guided Partial Nephrectomy Before and After Tumor Resection in Validated Phantoms.

Image-guided surgery (IGS) allows for accurate, real-time localization of subsurface critical structures during surgery. No prior IGS systems have de...

Effect of Chronotherapy of Antihypertensives in Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Control Trial.

INTRODUCTION: There is a higher prevalence of non-dipping pattern in hypertensive chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. Nocturnal hypertension has be...

CT-ORG, a new dataset for multiple organ segmentation in computed tomography.

Despite the relative ease of locating organs in the human body, automated organ segmentation has been hindered by the scarcity of labeled training dat...

Differentiation of low and high grade renal cell carcinoma on routine MRI with an externally validated automatic machine learning algorithm.

Pre-treatment determination of renal cell carcinoma aggressiveness may help guide clinical decision-making. We aimed to differentiate low-grade (Fuhrm...

A 3D-2D Hybrid U-Net Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Prostate Organ Segmentation of Multiparametric MRI.

OBJECTIVE: Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in the United States with more than 200,000 new cases in 2018. Multiparametric...

The validity of Dutch health claims data for identifying patients with chronic kidney disease: a hospital-based study in the Netherlands.

BACKGROUND: Health claims data may be an efficient and easily accessible source to study chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence in a nationwide popul...