Urology

Development of an interpretable machine learning model for predicting 4-year chronic kidney disease risk in elderly hypertensive patients.

INTRODUCTION: Age and hypertension are key drivers of renal impairment, predisposing older hypertens...

C-X-C Motif Chemokine Ligand 3 as a Potential Biomarker for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is the primary cause of end-stage renal disease globally, yet reliable...

Monocyte-to-HDL ratio (MHR) is associated with overall and renal mortality in community-dwelling older individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Early Implications for Solid Organ Transplantation With the Use of Artificial Intelligence From a Bibliometric Perspective.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly transforming health care, particularly in solid organ t...

Machine Learning Predictions for Assessing Hard-to-Place Deceased Donor Kidneys.

RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Nearly 20% of deceased donor kidneys in the United States are placed "out-of-...

Characterizing the Immune Cell Infiltration in Renal Interstitium and Therapeutic Targets of Drugs in Diabetic Nephropathy by Multiomics Study.

BACKGROUND: Immune cell infiltration in the renal interstitium contributes to the progression of dia...

Development of a quantitative multiparametric ultrasound and deep learning classifier for the detection of prostate cancer.

OBJECTIVES: Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis is increasingly guided by imaging, with ultrasound (US) ...

Artificial intelligence versus classical scoring systems: a comparative analysis of stone-free prediction after percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

This study aimed to compare the predictive performance of traditional stone scoring systems with a l...

Raman spectroscopy with machine-learning classification for the prediction of stereotactic radiotherapy induced treatment toxicity in high-risk localised prostate cancer.

Radiotherapy can lead to late-onset toxicity, to varying extents between individuals due to differen...

From prostate-specific antigen to precision: The future of prostate cancer diagnosis with artificial intelligence, biomarkers, and imaging.

BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis has historically relied on prostate-specific antigen (PS...

From ChatGPT to UroGPT: A guideline-trained artificial intelligence model for male infertility.

BACKGROUND: ChatGPT is not yet sufficiently reliable for answering clinical questions relevant to di...

Frailty trajectories and risk of incident advanced CKM syndrome: A national cohort analysis.

BACKGROUND: The interplay between frailty dynamics and the newly defined Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metab...

Ultrasound-Based Kidney Stone Classification Using Kronecker Self-Organizing Map Forward Harmonic Network.

Kidney stone disease is a prevalent urological disorder that can result in severe pain, obstruction,...

Refining deep learning segmentation in gallium-68-prostate-specific membrane antigen-11 positron emission tomography: evaluation of small lesion filtering and intersection-over-union thresholds.

PURPOSE: Evaluate how small lesion filtering and different intersection-over-union (IoU) thresholds ...

Organ preservation in rectal cancer: an endoscopist's perspective on current evidence and future directions.

Rectal cancer management has increasingly shifted toward organ-preserving strategies that aim to mai...

Fabricating a SMVF@GO@Ag Composite Aerogel SERS Sensor for the Enrichment and Label-Free Detection of Urinary VOCs.

The detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urine is a noninvasive diagnostic technique wi...

Network toxicology and experimental validation reveal TDCPP as an emerging environmental risk factor for chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (TDCPP) is a widely used organophosphorus flame re...

Patient Perspectives on AI-Powered Medical Robots in Breast and Prostate Cancer Care: Qualitative Study.

BACKGROUND: Nearly 250,000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in Canada, with breast and prostate c...

Multi-cohort, cross-species urinary proteomics reveals signatures of LRRK2 dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.

Pathogenic mutations in Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) are the predominant genetic cause of Pa...

Interpretable machine learning model for predicting 5-Year postoperative recurrence risk in patients with stage III colon cancer using preoperative laboratory tests: a two-centre study.

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent malignant diseases worldwide and di...

Optimizing Early Detection of Diabetic Kidney Disease through Synergistic Biomarkers and Serum Metabolites in Human.

BACKGROUND: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progresses to end-stage renal disease more rapidly than ch...