Urology

Effects of steep Trendelenburg position for robotic-assisted prostatectomies on intra- and extrathoracic airways in patients with or without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BACKGROUND: The use of the steep Trendelenburg position and abdominal CO2-insufflation during surger...

A novel robotic platform for laser-assisted transurethral surgery of the prostate.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common pathology afflicting ageing men. The gold stan...

Estimation of teaching-learning-based optimization primer design using regression analysis for different melting temperature calculations.

Primers plays important role in polymerase chain reaction (PCR) experiments, thus it is necessary to...

Editorial Comment from Dr Kadono to Anatomical dimensions using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging: impact on the learning curve of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

Editorial Comment from Dr Teo and Dr Lim to Anatomical dimensions using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging: impact on the learning curve of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

Anatomical dimensions using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging: impact on the learning curve of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of anatomical dimensions as measured using preoperative magnetic r...

Endoscopic robot-assisted simple enucleation (ERASE) for clinical T1 renal masses: description of the technique and early postoperative results.

BACKGROUND: Simple enucleation (SE) has proven to be oncologically safe. We describe the surgical st...

A data-driven approach to prostate cancer detection from dynamic contrast enhanced MRI.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) imaging, has shown gr...

Ocular complications in robotic-assisted prostatectomy: a review of pathophysiology and prevention.

Ocular complications reported after robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) inclu...

Procalcitonin Strip Test as an Independent Predictor in Acute Pancreatitis.

Plasma procalcitonin (PCT) is a highly specific marker for the diagnosis of bacterial infection and ...

Oncologic results, functional outcomes, and complication rates of transperitoneal robotic assisted radical prostatectomy: single centre's experience.

BACKGROUND: We report the operative details and short term oncologic and functional outcome of the f...

Prediction of peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations after renal transplantation.

Immune monitoring is essential for maintaining immune homeostasis after renal transplantation (RT). ...

Deep learning-based detection of bacterial swarm motion using a single image.

Motility is a fundamental characteristic of bacteria. Distinguishing between swarming and swimming, ...

The accuracy of Machine learning in the prediction and diagnosis of diabetic kidney Disease: A systematic review and Meta-Analysis.

PURPOSE: Machine learning (ML) has gained attention in diabetes management, particularly for predict...

Hexagonal ice density dependence on interatomic distance changes due to nuclear quantum effects.

Hexagonal ice (Ih), the most common structure of ice, displays a variety of fascinating properties. ...

[Research on risk prediction of acute respiratory distress syndrome complicated with acute kidney injury: progress and challenges].

The risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) combined with acute kidney injury (AKI) is hi...

Single- versus multi-model in the deep learning prediction of monitor units per control point for automated treatment planning in prostate cancer.

BACKGROUND: In contemporary radiation therapy, the radiation is modulated to conform the prescriptio...

Impact of deep learning model uncertainty on manual corrections to MRI-based auto-segmentation in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Deep learning (DL)-based organ segmentation is increasingly used in radiotherapy. While ...

Development and clinical implementation of an MRI-only planning workflow featuring deep learning-based synthetic CT for prostate cancer external beam radiotherapy.

BACKGROUND: In external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for prostate cancer, both MRI and CT are typic...

Improving Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer Detection with a Multimodal Machine Learning Approach: A Large-Scale Multicenter Study.

Purpose To develop and prospectively validate a clinical and radiologic model to predict clinically ...

Deep sensorless tracking of ultrasound probe orientation during freehand transperineal biopsy with spatial context for symmetry disambiguation.

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of prostate cancer requires histopathology of tissue samples. Following an MRI...