Urology

Reply to Riccardo Bertolo's Letter to the Editor re: Giorgio Gandaglia, Carlo Andrea Bravi, Paolo Dell'Oglio, et al. The Impact of Implementation of the European Association of Urology Guidelines Panel Recommendations on Reporting and Grading Complications on Perioperative Outcomes after Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Eur Urol 2018;74:4-7.

Comparison of Robot-Assisted Versus Open Simple Prostatectomy for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Recent advancements in minimally invasive approaches for prostate surgery have provided numerous options for surgical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). In the setting of a large prostate, an open simple prostatectomy was previously considered the gold standard surgical treatment. However, the recently updated American Urological Association (AUA) guidelines on su...

Effect of Hepatitis C Treatment on Renal Function in Liver Transplant Patients.

Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is uniformly recurrent after liver transplant (LT) and recurrence is associated with an increased risk of mortality. Immunosu...

Modeling the covariates effects on the hazard function by piecewise exponential artificial neural networks: an application to a controlled clinical trial on renal carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: In exploring the time course of a disease to support or generate biological hypotheses, the shape of the hazard function provides relevant...

Assessment of Functional Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Pathway Activity in Cancer Tissue Using Forkhead Box-O Target Gene Expression in a Knowledge-Based Computational Model.

The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is commonly activated in cancer. Tumors are potentially sensitive to PI3K pathway inhibitors, but rel...

Lupus nephritis pathology prediction with clinical indices.

Effective treatment of lupus nephritis and assessment of patient prognosis depend on accurate pathological classification and careful use of acute and...

Outcomes of Intradetrusor OnabotulinumtoxinA Injection in Adults with Congenital Spinal Dysraphism in Tertiary Transitional Urology Clinic.

PURPOSE: Published data regarding intradetrusor injection of onabotulinumtoxinA in adults with congenital spinal dysraphism are scarce. In this study,...

Weakly-supervised convolutional neural networks for multimodal image registration.

One of the fundamental challenges in supervised learning for multimodal image registration is the lack of ground-truth for voxel-level spatial corresp...

Predictive Analytics and Modeling Employing Machine Learning Technology: The Next Step in Data Sharing, Analysis, and Individualized Counseling Explored With a Large, Prospective Prenatal Hydronephrosis Database.

OBJECTIVE: To explore the potential value of utilizing a commercially available cloud-based machine learning platform to predict surgical intervention...

Long-term Glomerular Filtration Rate and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes Stage Stability After Conversion to Once-Daily Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Close monitoring of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is important for early recognition of worsening renal function to prevent further dete...

Machine learning models to predict the progression from early to late stages of papillary renal cell carcinoma.

Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma (PRCC) is a heterogeneous disease with variations in disease progression and clinical outcomes. The advent of next gene...

Deep Learning Global Glomerulosclerosis in Transplant Kidney Frozen Sections.

Transplantable kidneys are in very limited supply. Accurate viability assessment prior to transplantation could minimize organ discard. Rapid and accu...

Deep Recurrent Neural Networks for Prostate Cancer Detection: Analysis of Temporal Enhanced Ultrasound.

Temporal enhanced ultrasound (TeUS), comprising the analysis of variations in backscattered signals from a tissue over a sequence of ultrasound frames...

Advances in the computational and molecular understanding of the prostate cancer cell nucleus.

Nuclear alterations are a hallmark of many types of cancers, including prostate cancer (PCa). Recent evidence shows that subvisual changes, ones that ...

A deep learning approach for real time prostate segmentation in freehand ultrasound guided biopsy.

Targeted prostate biopsy, incorporating multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) and its registration with ultrasound, is currently the st...

Assessment of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Biparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Prostate Cancer in Biopsy-Naive Men: The Biparametric MRI for Detection of Prostate Cancer (BIDOC) Study.

IMPORTANCE: Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enhances detection and risk stratification for significant prostate cancer but is time-co...

Re: Impact of Body Mass Index on Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion.

Re: The Impact of Lateral Bladder Neck Preservation on Urinary Continence Recovery after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

Affinity network fusion and semi-supervised learning for cancer patient clustering.

Defining subtypes of complex diseases such as cancer and stratifying patient groups with the same disease but different subtypes for targeted treatmen...

Robot-assisted transvesical partial prostatectomy using a purpose-built single-port robotic system.

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of robot-assisted single-port (SP) transvesical partial prostatectomy (TVPP) using a novel purpose-built SP su...