Urology

Adherence of the indication to European Association of Urology guideline recommended pelvic lymph node dissection at a high-volume center: Differences between open and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

PURPOSE: Contemporary adherence of the indication to European Association of Urology (EAU) guideline...

Natural Language Processing for Real-Time Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Surveillance: Results of a Pilot Implementation Trial.

BACKGROUND: Incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is a quality benchmark....

Prediction of mortality after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer by machine learning techniques.

Bladder cancer is a common cancer in genitourinary malignancy. For muscle invasive bladder cancer, s...

Prostate cancer identification: quantitative analysis of T2-weighted MR images based on a back propagation artificial neural network model.

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been proposed to assist radiologists in making diagnosti...

Combined unsupervised-supervised classification of multiparametric PET/MRI data: application to prostate cancer.

Multiparametric medical imaging data can be large and are often complex. Machine learning algorithms...

Fully-automated synthesis of 16β-(18)F-fluoro-5α-dihydrotestosterone (FDHT) on the ELIXYS radiosynthesizer.

Noninvasive in vivo imaging of androgen receptor (AR) levels with positron emission tomography (PET)...

Efficient multi-atlas abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired CT with SIMPLE context learning.

Abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired computed tomography (CT) has been a challenging proble...

Re: Completely Intracorporeal Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Augmentation Enterocystoplasty With Continent Catheterizable Channel (Urology 2014;84:1314-1318).

Robotic-Assisted Ureteral Re-implantation: A Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: Minimally invasive surgical techniques are currently used for numerous urologic disord...

Re: Robot-Assisted Surgery for Kidney Cancer Increased Access to a Procedure that can Reduce Mortality and Renal Failure.

Increase in apoptotic effect of Panax ginseng by microwave processing in human prostate cancer cells: in vitro and in vivo studies.

BACKGROUND: Ginseng, which is widely used in functional foods and as an herbal medicine, has been re...

Continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with adverse urinary continence risk factors.

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in subo...

Predicting pathological outcomes in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer: a preoperative nomogram.

OBJECTIVE: To identify which high-risk patients with prostate cancer may harbour favourable patholog...

Evaluation and integration of cancer gene classifiers: identification and ranking of plausible drivers.

The number of mutated genes in cancer cells is far larger than the number of mutations that drive ca...

Knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning versus planning by experts: validation of a KBRT algorithm for prostate cancer treatment planning.

BACKGROUND: A knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning algorithm was recently dev...

Could machine learning improve the prediction of pelvic nodal status of prostate cancer patients? Preliminary results of a pilot study.

We tested and compared performances of Roach formula, Partin tables and of three Machine Learning (M...

Age stratified comparative analysis of perioperative, functional and oncologic outcomes in patients after robot assisted radical prostatectomy--A propensity score matched study.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to evaluate the perioperative, functional and intermediate...

Simple enucleation for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors: Perioperative, functional and oncological results.

AIM: To assess the role of simple enucleation (SE) for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors.

Transient but significant visual field defects after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in deep tRendelenburg position.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) is a minimally invasive surgica...

Negative Affect Instability among Individuals with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994) was utilized to examine affective inst...

Types of vicarious learning experienced by pre-dialysis patients.

OBJECTIVE: Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis renal replacement treatment options are in clinical...