Urology

Re: Impact of Urology Resident Involvement on Intraoperative, Long-Term Oncologic and Functional Outcomes of Robotic Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy.

AdaEn-Net: An ensemble of adaptive 2D-3D Fully Convolutional Networks for medical image segmentation.

Fully Convolutional Networks (FCNs) have emerged as powerful segmentation models but are usually designed manually, which requires extensive time and can result in large and complex architectures. There is a growing interest to automatically design efficient architectures that can accurately segment 3D medical images. However, most approaches either do not fully exploit volumetric information or d...

Retrospective Cohort Analysis from a High-Volume Center of Prognostic Factors Affecting Biochemical Relapse in Patients with Encapsulated, Margin-Negative, Isolated Seminal Vesicle Invasion After Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: A Novel Study.

Specimen pathology findings collectively impact the long-term outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. Since seminal vesicle invasion (...

Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal Data with Non-ignorable Non-monotone Missingness with Semiparametric Bayesian and Machine Learning Components.

In longitudinal studies, outcomes are measured repeatedly over time and it is common that not all the patients will be measured throughout the study. ...

Age-specific reference ranges of prostate-specific antigen in the elderly of Amirkola: A population-based study.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the age-specific reference ranges of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in the older men in the city of Amirkola.

Data-driven translational prostate cancer research: from biomarker discovery to clinical decision.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a common malignant tumor with increasing incidence and high heterogeneity among males worldwide. In the era of big data and a...

Vessel and Tension-Free Reconstruction During Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Hilar Tumors: "Garland" Technique and Midterm Outcomes.

Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) is increasingly applied to renal hilar tumors. The present study aims to introduce our vessel and tension-f...

Climacturia after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

INTRODUCTION: Adverse effects in the sexual sphere are common in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy (RP). Climacturia, involuntary loss...

Postanesthesia care unit delirium following robot-assisted vs open retropubic radical prostatectomy: A prospective observational study.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to compare the incidence of early postoperative delirium in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) between robot-as...

Computationally Derived Image Signature of Stromal Morphology Is Prognostic of Prostate Cancer Recurrence Following Prostatectomy in African American Patients.

PURPOSE: Between 30%-40% of patients with prostate cancer experience disease recurrence following radical prostatectomy. Existing clinical models for ...

Parametric generation of three-dimensional gait for robot-assisted rehabilitation.

For robot-assisted rehabilitation and assessment of patients with motor dysfunction, the parametric generation of their normal gait as the input for t...

Can online support groups address psychological morbidity of cancer patients? An artificial intelligence based investigation of prostate cancer trajectories.

BACKGROUND: Online Cancer Support Groups (OCSG) are becoming an increasingly vital source of information, experiences and empowerment for patients wit...

Artificial intelligence as the next step towards precision pathology.

Pathology is the cornerstone of cancer care. The need for accuracy in histopathologic diagnosis of cancer is increasing as personalized cancer therapy...

Single-Port Robotic Urological Surgery Using Purpose-Built Single-Port Surgical System: Single-Institutional Experience With the First 100 Cases.

OBJECTIVES: To present a comprehensive report regarding our experience with single-port robotic surgery in our first 100 consecutive patients. We desc...

Deep learning computer vision algorithm for detecting kidney stone composition.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the recall of a deep learning (DL) method to automatically detect kidney stones composition from digital photographs of stones.

Intracorporeal Studer Pouch Formation with Balbay's Technique Following Robotic Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer: Experience with 22 Cases with Oncologic and Functional Outcomes.

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) with intracorporeal Studer pouch formation (ICSPF) is increasingly being performed. Balbay's technique of IC...

A Novel Surgical Technique for Obstructed Megaureter: Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Dismembered Extravesical Cross-Trigonal Ureteral Reimplantation-Short-Term Assessment.

To describe our experience with robot-assisted laparoscopic dismembered extravesical cross-trigonal ureteral reimplantation (RADECUR)-a novel minimal...

An Underwater Robotic Manipulator with Soft Bladders and Compact Depth-Independent Actuation.

An underwater manipulator is essential for underwater robotic sampling and other service operations. Conventional rigid body underwater manipulators g...

Differentiation of distal ureteral stones and pelvic phleboliths using a convolutional neural network.

The objectives were to develop and validate a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) using local features for differentiating distal ureteral stones from ...

Harnessing Population Pedigree Data and Machine Learning Methods to Identify Patterns of Familial Bladder Cancer Risk.

BACKGROUND: Relatives of patients with bladder cancer have been shown to be at increased risk for kidney, lung, thyroid, and cervical cancer after cor...