Urology

askMUSIC: Leveraging a Clinical Registry to Develop a New Machine Learning Model to Inform Patients of Prostate Cancer Treatments Chosen by Similar Men.

BACKGROUND: Clinical registries provide physicians with a means for making data-driven decisions but few opportunities exist for patients to interact with registry data to help make decisions.

Obesity and chronic kidney disease progression-the role of a new adipocytokine: C1q/tumour necrosis factor-related protein-1.

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a risk factor for incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the general population. C1q/tumour necrosis factor-related protein 1 (CTRP1) is a new adipokine with multiple vascular and metabolic effects and may modulate the association between obesity and vascular diseases. The aim of the study is to explore potential links between obesity, CTRP1 levels and CKD progression.

Outcome of kidney function in adults on long-term home parenteral nutrition for chronic intestinal failure.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate kidney function outcome in adults on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) for chronic intestinal failure u...

Progress in the Development and Challenges for the Use of Artificial Kidneys and Wearable Dialysis Devices.

BACKGROUND: Renal transplantation is the treatment of choice for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients, but the shortage of kidneys and the disabling ...

STRAINet: Spatially Varying sTochastic Residual AdversarIal Networks for MRI Pelvic Organ Segmentation.

Accurate segmentation of pelvic organs is important for prostate radiation therapy. Modern radiation therapy starts to use a magnetic resonance image ...

Diagnosis of T-cell-mediated kidney rejection in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues using RNA-Seq-based machine learning algorithms.

Molecular diagnosis is being increasingly used in transplant pathology to render more objective and quantitative determinations that also provide mech...

FRAX Calculated without BMD Resulting in a Higher Fracture Risk Than That Calculated with BMD in Women with Early Breast Cancer.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of including the measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) in reliable...

Diagnosis of urinary tract infection based on artificial intelligence methods.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common disease affecting the vast majority of people. UTI involves a simple infection cau...

Critically Ill Recipients of Weight-Based Fluconazole Meeting Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network Criteria.

Fluconazole-associated liver injury is estimated to occur in <10% of patients; however, effect of weight-based fluconazole dosing on liver injury is ...

Feasibility of anatomical feature points for the estimation of prostate locations in the Bayesian delineation frameworks for prostate cancer radiotherapy.

This study aimed to investigate the feasibility of anatomical feature points for the estimation of prostate locations in the Bayesian delineation fram...

Automatic glomerular identification and quantification of histological phenotypes using image analysis and machine learning.

Current methods of scoring histological kidney samples, specifically glomeruli, do not allow for collection of quantitative data in a high-throughput ...

Automatic Lacunae Localization in Placental Ultrasound Images via Layer Aggregation.

Accurate localization of structural abnormalities is a precursor for image-based prenatal assessment of adverse conditions. For clinical screening and...

Comparison of Visual Prostate Symptom Score with the International Prostate Symptom Score and uroflowmetry parameters in assessing men with lower urinary tract symptoms in Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo National General Hospital, Indonesia.

BACKGROUND: The complexity of International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) as an objective questionnaire for lower urinary tract symptoms might be over...

Second branchial cleft anomalies in children: a literature review.

Branchial cleft anomalies are the second most common head and neck congenital lesions in children. It may sometimes be a part of branchio-oto-renal (B...

Comprehensive urinary metabolomic characterization of a genetically induced mouse model of prostatic inflammation.

Dysfunction of the lower urinary tract commonly afflicts the middle-aged and aging male population. The etiology of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS...

Wearable artificial kidney and wearable ultrafiltration device vascular access-future directions.

BACKGROUND: Since 2005, three human clinical trials have been performed with the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) and Wearable Ultrafiltration (WUF) d...

Prostate Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy With a Focal Simultaneous Integrated Boost: Acute Toxicity and Dosimetry Results From a Prospective Trial.

PURPOSE: This study aimed to report the early toxicity results of a prospective clinical trial of prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) ...

MRI-based automated detection of implanted low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy seeds using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) and unsupervised machine learning (ML).

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Permanent seed brachytherapy is an established treatment option for localized prostate cancer. Currently, post-implant dosimet...

PBN11-8, a Cytotoxic Polypeptide Purified from Marine , Suppresses Invasion and Migration of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells by Targeting Focal Adhesion Kinase Pathways.

The development of antitumor drugs has attracted cancer researchers and the identification of novel antitumor lead compounds is certainly of great int...

Robotic-assisted vs. open radical prostatectomy: A machine learning framework for intelligent analysis of patient-reported outcomes from online cancer support groups.

BACKGROUND: The advantages of Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RARP) over open radical prostatectomy (ORP) in Prostate cancer perioperativel...