Urology

Radiofrequency endometrial ablation for treating heavy menstrual bleeding in women with chronic renal failure.

OBJECTIVE: The study objective was to retrospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of radiofrequency endometrial ablation in treating heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in women with chronic renal failure (CRF).

Learning deep similarity metric for 3D MR-TRUS image registration.

PURPOSE: The fusion of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding targeted prostate biopsy has significantly improved the biopsy yield of aggressive cancers. A key component of MR-TRUS fusion is image registration. However, it is very challenging to obtain a robust automatic MR-TRUS registration due to the large appearance difference between the two imaging modali...

Computer-aided diagnosis of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract in children based on ultrasound imaging data by integrating texture image features and deep transfer learning image features.

INTRODUCTION: Anatomic characteristics of kidneys derived from ultrasound images are potential biomarkers of children with congenital abnormalities of...

Risky Business: Judging the Use of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Renal Dysfunction.

Warfarin, for many years, was the only oral anticoagulant availablt on the market for the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. D...

Usefulness of Delayed Introduction of Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplants Using Type-III Donors After Circulatory Death.

INTRODUCTION: Our study compares 2 immunosuppressive strategies to reduce tacrolimus nephrotoxicity and its risk of acute tubular necrosis: delayed in...

A collaborative computer aided diagnosis (C-CAD) system with eye-tracking, sparse attentional model, and deep learning.

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tools help radiologists to reduce diagnostic errors such as missing tumors and misdiagnosis. Vision researchers have be...

Vapoenucleation of the Prostate Using 180 W GreenLight Laser.

INTRODUCTION: The vapoenucleation of the prostate using green laser is an alternative hybrid technique between vaporization and enucleation. It consis...

Urinary concentrations and profiles of organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticide metabolites and phenoxyacid herbicides in populations in eight countries.

Concentrations of nine metabolites of organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides, as well as two phenoxy herbicides, were determined in 322 urine sam...

Results of Phase 1 study on cytoreductive radical prostatectomy in men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer.

BACKGROUND: Preclinical and retrospective data suggest that cytoreductive radical prostatectomy may benefit a subset of men who present with metastati...

Prevalence of Diabetic Retinopathy and Associated Mortality Among Diabetic Adults With and Without Chronic Kidney Disease.

PURPOSE: To estimate prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) among U.S. adults with diabetes and with or without chronic kidney disease (...

Predicting Advanced Prostate Cancer from Modeling Early Indications in Biopsy and Prostatectomy Samples via Transductive Semi-Supervised Survival Analysis.

Prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer and the second most common cause of cancer deaths among men in the United States. Accurate progno...

Comparisons of Pressure-controlled Ventilation with Volume Guarantee and Volume-controlled 1:1 Equal Ratio Ventilation on Oxygenation and Respiratory Mechanics during Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: a Randomized-controlled Trial.

During robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), steep Trendelenburg position and carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum are inevitable for ...

Assessment of specific versus combined purpose knowledge based models in prostate radiotherapy.

Knowledge-based planning (KBP) can be used to improve plan quality, planning speed, and reduce the inter-patient plan variability. KPB may also identi...

Automatic Needle Segmentation and Localization in MRI With 3-D Convolutional Neural Networks: Application to MRI-Targeted Prostate Biopsy.

Image guidance improves tissue sampling during biopsy by allowing the physician to visualize the tip and trajectory of the biopsy needle relative to t...

The future is coming: promising perspectives regarding the use of machine learning in renal transplantation.

INTRODUCTION: The prediction of post transplantation outcomes is clinically important and involves several problems. The current prediction models bas...

[Hepatitis B and renal failure: prevalence and associated factors in National University Hospital Center of Cotonou].

INTRODUCTION: the association between the kidneys and hepatitis B is complex. This study aims to determine the prevalence and factors associated with ...

An evaluation method of risk grades for prostate cancer using similarity measure of cubic hesitant fuzzy sets.

Prostate cancer (PC) is more common cancer in older men. Then, the existing evaluation method of PC risk grades is based on the AJCC (American Joint C...

Evaluation of robot-assisted MRI-guided prostate biopsy: needle path analysis during clinical trials.

While the interaction between a needle and the surrounding tissue is known to cause a significant targeting error in prostate biopsy leading to false-...

Minimally invasive, robot-assisted procedure for kidney transplantation among morbidly obese: Positive outcomes at 5 years post-transplant.

The pre-transplant weight loss required of end-stage renal disease patients is often unachievable. Though robot-assisted procedures among extremely ob...

Path R-CNN for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Gleason Grading of Histological Images.

Prostate cancer is the most common and second most deadly form of cancer in men in the United States. The classification of prostate cancers based on ...