Urology

Searching for prostate cancer by fully automated magnetic resonance imaging classification: deep learning versus non-deep learning.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major cause of death since ancient time documented in Egyptian Ptolemaic mummy imaging. PCa detection is critical to personalized medicine and varies considerably under an MRI scan. 172 patients with 2,602 morphologic images (axial 2D T2-weighted imaging) of the prostate were obtained. A deep learning with deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) and a non-deep learning ...

A Pneumatic Tactile Sensor for Co-Operative Robots.

Tactile sensors of comprehensive functions are urgently needed for the advanced robot to co-exist and co-operate with human beings. Pneumatic tactile sensors based on air bladder possess some noticeable advantages for human-robot interaction application. In this paper, we construct a pneumatic tactile sensor and apply it on the fingertip of robot hand to realize the sensing of force, vibration and...

A Successful Approach to Kidney Transplantation in Patients With Enteric (Secondary) Hyperoxaluria.

BACKGROUND: Enteric hyperoxaluria due to malabsorption may cause chronic oxalate nephropathy and lead to end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantati...

Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Comparing a Novel Equation With Commonly Used Equations in this Population.

BACKGROUND: Assessment of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is important in kidney transplantation. The aim was to develop a kidney transplant specific...

Fast segmentation of kidney components using random forests and ferns.

PURPOSE: This paper studies the feasibility of developing a fast and accurate automatic kidney component segmentation method. The proposed method segm...

Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification of prostate cancer Gleason score in central gland using multiparametric magnetic resonance images: A cross-validated study.

PURPOSE: To assess the performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM) classification to stratify the Gleason Score (GS) of prostate cancer (PCa) in the ...

Eight Weeks of Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir in Kidney Transplant Recipients With Hepatitis C Genotype 1 Infection.

Short treatment duration of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir (LDV/SOF) has been successfully used to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection in treatm...

Does magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy improve prostate cancer detection? A comparison of systematic, cognitive fusion and ultrasound fusion prostate biopsy.

BACKGROUND: The increase in the use of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of prostate cancer has led to the rapid adoption o...

Accuracy of glomerular filtration rate estimationequations in patients with hematopathy.

Renal dysfunction is a common side-effect of chemotherapeuticagents in patients with hematopathy. Although broadly used, glomerularfiltration rate (GF...

Convolutional Neural Network for Histopathological Analysis of Osteosarcoma.

Pathologists often deal with high complexity and sometimes disagreement over osteosarcoma tumor classification due to cellular heterogeneity in the da...

Validation of an online risk calculator for the prediction of anastomotic leak after colon cancer surgery and preliminary exploration of artificial intelligence-based analytics.

BACKGROUND: Recently published data support the use of a web-based risk calculator ( www.anastomoticleak.com ) for the prediction of anastomotic leak ...

ADMET Evaluation in Drug Discovery. 18. Reliable Prediction of Chemical-Induced Urinary Tract Toxicity by Boosting Machine Learning Approaches.

Xenobiotic chemicals and their metabolites are mainly excreted out of our bodies by the urinary tract through the urine. Chemical-induced urinary trac...

[Assessment of diet in patients with chronic kidney diseases without dialysis and relationship with the nutritional status].

BACKGROUND: Diet is one of the pillars of the treatment for patients with chronic kidney disease without dialysis (NDD-CKD). Despite this, very few st...

Development and Validation of a High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography Method for the Determination of Chemical Purity and Radiochemical Purity of a [Ga]-Labeled Glu-Urea-Lys(Ahx)-HBED-CC (Positron Emission Tomography) Tracer.

: Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) has gained high attention as a useful biomarker in the imaging evaluation of prostate cancer with positron...

First Ever Use of Proton Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Delivered with Curative Intent to Bilateral Synchronous Primary Renal Cell Carcinomas.

Limited therapeutic options exist for inoperable bilateral kidney tumors. We report the first ever use of proton therapy to treat primary renal cell c...

Early Detection of Ureteropelvic Junction Obstruction Using Signal Analysis and Machine Learning: A Dynamic Solution to a Dynamic Problem.

PURPOSE: We sought to define features that describe the dynamic information in diuresis renograms for the early detection of clinically significant hy...

A new machine-learning method to prognosticate paraquat poisoned patients by combining coagulation, liver, and kidney indices.

The prognosis of paraquat (PQ) poisoning is highly correlated to plasma PQ concentration, which has been identified as the most important index in PQ ...

Loculated transudative pleural effusion masquerading as right upper lobe consolidation in a haemodialysis patient.

Pleural effusion is a common encounter in renal failure patients and frequently possess a diagnostic challenge to clinician especially when it was exu...

Cervical cancer histology image identification method based on texture and lesion area features.

The issue of an automated approach for detecting cervical cancer is proposed to improve the accuracy of recognition. Firstly, the cervical cancer hist...

A novel machine learning approach reveals latent vascular phenotypes predictive of renal cancer outcome.

Gene expression signatures are commonly used as predictive biomarkers, but do not capture structural features within the tissue architecture. Here we ...