Urology

Prediction of mortality after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer by machine learning techniques.

Bladder cancer is a common cancer in genitourinary malignancy. For muscle invasive bladder cancer, surgical removal of the bladder, i.e. radical cystectomy, is in general the definitive treatment which, unfortunately, carries significant morbidities and mortalities. Accurate prediction of the mortality of radical cystectomy is therefore needed. Statistical methods have conventionally been used for...

Prostate cancer identification: quantitative analysis of T2-weighted MR images based on a back propagation artificial neural network model.

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have been proposed to assist radiologists in making diagnostic decisions by providing helpful information. As one of the most important sequences in prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), image features from T2-weighted images (T2WI) were extracted and evaluated for the diagnostic performances by using CAD. We extracted 12 quantitative image features from...

Combined unsupervised-supervised classification of multiparametric PET/MRI data: application to prostate cancer.

Multiparametric medical imaging data can be large and are often complex. Machine learning algorithms can assist in image interpretation when reliable ...

Fully-automated synthesis of 16β-(18)F-fluoro-5α-dihydrotestosterone (FDHT) on the ELIXYS radiosynthesizer.

Noninvasive in vivo imaging of androgen receptor (AR) levels with positron emission tomography (PET) is becoming the primary tool in prostate cancer d...

Efficient multi-atlas abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired CT with SIMPLE context learning.

Abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired computed tomography (CT) has been a challenging problem given the inter-subject variance of human abdome...

Re: Completely Intracorporeal Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Augmentation Enterocystoplasty With Continent Catheterizable Channel (Urology 2014;84:1314-1318).

Robotic-Assisted Ureteral Re-implantation: A Case Series.

INTRODUCTION: Minimally invasive surgical techniques are currently used for numerous urologic disorders and generally offer decreased morbidity and eq...

Re: Robot-Assisted Surgery for Kidney Cancer Increased Access to a Procedure that can Reduce Mortality and Renal Failure.

Increase in apoptotic effect of Panax ginseng by microwave processing in human prostate cancer cells: in vitro and in vivo studies.

BACKGROUND: Ginseng, which is widely used in functional foods and as an herbal medicine, has been reported to reduce the proliferation of prostate can...

Predicting pathological outcomes in patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for high-risk prostate cancer: a preoperative nomogram.

OBJECTIVE: To identify which high-risk patients with prostate cancer may harbour favourable pathological outcomes at radical prostatectomy (RP).

Continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy in patients with adverse urinary continence risk factors.

OBJECTIVE: To analyse the continence outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in suboptimal patients that have challenging continence r...

Evaluation and integration of cancer gene classifiers: identification and ranking of plausible drivers.

The number of mutated genes in cancer cells is far larger than the number of mutations that drive cancer. The difficulty this creates for identifying ...

Knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning versus planning by experts: validation of a KBRT algorithm for prostate cancer treatment planning.

BACKGROUND: A knowledge-based radiation therapy (KBRT) treatment planning algorithm was recently developed. The purpose of this work is to investigate...

Could machine learning improve the prediction of pelvic nodal status of prostate cancer patients? Preliminary results of a pilot study.

We tested and compared performances of Roach formula, Partin tables and of three Machine Learning (ML) based algorithms based on decision trees in ide...

Age stratified comparative analysis of perioperative, functional and oncologic outcomes in patients after robot assisted radical prostatectomy--A propensity score matched study.

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to evaluate the perioperative, functional and intermediate term oncological outcomes of robot assisted radic...

Simple enucleation for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors: Perioperative, functional and oncological results.

AIM: To assess the role of simple enucleation (SE) for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors.

Transient but significant visual field defects after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in deep tRendelenburg position.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure for prostate cancer. During RALP, the ...

Negative Affect Instability among Individuals with Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA; Stone & Shiffman, 1994) was utilized to examine affective instability (AI) in the daily lives of outpatients wit...

Types of vicarious learning experienced by pre-dialysis patients.

OBJECTIVE: Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis renal replacement treatment options are in clinical equipoise, although the cost of haemodialysis to ...

Generating a focused view of disease ontology cancer terms for pan-cancer data integration and analysis.

Bio-ontologies provide terminologies for the scientific community to describe biomedical entities in a standardized manner. There are multiple initiat...