Urology

Pulse Wave Velocity and Machine Learning to Predict Cardiovascular Outcomes in Prediabetic and Diabetic Populations.

Few studies have addressed the predictive value of arterial stiffness determined by pulse wave velocity (PWV) in a high-risk population with no prevalent cardiovascular disease and with obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and preserved kidney function. This longitudinal, retrospective study enrolled 88 high-risk patients and had a follow-up time of 12.4 years. We collected clinical and laborator...

Re: Eugene Shkolyar, Xiao Jia, Timothy C. Chang, et al. Augmented Bladder Tumor Detection Using Deep Learning. Eur Urol 2019;76:714-8.

Automatic detection of calcium phosphate deposit plugs at the terminal ends of kidney tubules.

Kidney stones are a common urologic condition with a high amount of recurrence. Recurrence depends on a multitude of factors the incidence of precurso...

Machine learning distilled metabolite biomarkers for early stage renal injury.

INTRODUCTION: With chronic kidney disease (CKD), kidney becomes damaged overtime and fails to clean blood. Around 15% of US adults have CKD and nine i...

Epithelium segmentation and automated Gleason grading of prostate cancer via deep learning in label-free multiphoton microscopic images.

In the current clinical care practice, Gleason grading system is one of the most powerful prognostic predictors for prostate cancer (PCa). The grading...

Re: Perioperative Outcomes and Complications after Robotic Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal or Extracorporeal Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion: Head-to-Head Comparison from a Single-Institutional Prospective Study.

CT prostate segmentation based on synthetic MRI-aided deep attention fully convolution network.

PURPOSE: Accurate segmentation of the prostate on computed tomography (CT) for treatment planning is challenging due to CT's poor soft tissue contrast...

Estimation of Bladder Pressure and Volume from the Neural Activity of Lumbosacral Dorsal Horn Using a Long-Short-Term-Memory-based Deep Neural Network.

In this paper, we propose a deep recurrent neural network (DRNN) for the estimation of bladder pressure and volume from neural activity recorded direc...

Brunn's Cyst Inducing Persistent Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in a Young Man: A Case Report.

Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are mostly caused by hyperplasia of the prostate in the elderly generation or are the consequence of a urethral s...

Methylglyoxal-derived advanced glycation end products induce matrix metalloproteinases through activation of ERK/JNK/NF-κB pathway in kidney proximal epithelial cells.

The accumulation of reactive α-dicarbonyl leading to advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been linked to pathophysiological diseases in many st...

Dose independent characterization of renal stones by means of dual energy computed tomography and machine learning: an ex-vivo study.

OBJECTIVES: To predict the main component of pure and mixed kidney stones using dual-energy computed tomography and machine learning.

Automatic Quality Assessment of Transperineal Ultrasound Images of the Male Pelvic Region, Using Deep Learning.

Ultrasound guidance is not in widespread use in prostate cancer radiotherapy workflows. This can be partially attributed to the need for image interpr...

Machine learning for the prediction of acute kidney injury and paraplegia after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

OBJECTIVE: Prediction of acute renal failure (ARF) and paraplegia after thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair (TAAAR) is helpful for decision-making...

Why a robot took my bladder.

Development of a Deep Learning Algorithm for the Histopathologic Diagnosis and Gleason Grading of Prostate Cancer Biopsies: A Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND: The pathologic diagnosis and Gleason grading of prostate cancer are time-consuming, error-prone, and subject to interobserver variability....

Isolated Hepatic Metastasis of Prostate Cancer with Variable F-fluociclovine Uptake by PET/CT Imaging.

A 74-year-old man presented with rapid rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) 2 years after treatment of prostate cancer with prostatectomy and salvag...

Deep segmentation networks predict survival of non-small cell lung cancer.

Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents approximately 80-85% of lung cancer diagnoses and is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide...

The diagnostic and prognostic roles of serum irisin in bladder cancer.

BACKGROUND: Egypt is among the countries with the highest incidence of bladder cancer (BC). Adipokines involved in BC development. This study aimed to...

Identification of repurposable drugs with beneficial effects on glucose control in type 2 diabetes using machine learning.

Despite effective medications, rates of uncontrolled glucose levels in type 2 diabetes remain high. We aimed to test the utility of machine learning a...

Pelvic lymph node dissection at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: Assessing utilization and nodal metastases within a statewide quality improvement consortium.

PURPOSE: Several guidelines recommend pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) at robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) only when lymph node involvem...