Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are being increasingly applied to modern medicine. Within the field of urology, reproductive urology specifically offers many opportunities to utilize this advanced computational technology for diagnostic and thera...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2025
The scarcity of human ocular samples with short postmortem intervals (PMIs) is a significant issue in ophthalmic research and drug discovery. A contributing factor is that eye banks must manually match donor data to prospective research project crite...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2025
Retinal degenerative diseases caused by retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) dysfunction affect specific areas of the retina. Regions of molecular and phenotypic RPE heterogeneity have been described in the human eye and are thought to underlie geographi...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
One of the challenges of AI technologies is its "black box" nature, or the lack of explainability and interpretability of these technologies. This chapter explores whether AI systems in healthcare generally, and in neurosurgery specifically, should b...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
The rapid pace of development and application of digital technology and data science, including artificial intelligence (AI), is transforming our world. In this chapter, we address the question: "Is bioethics relevant to how we should develop, govern...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
This chapter highlights the intersection of pain neuromodulation and machine learning (ML), exploring current limitations in pain management and how ML techniques can address these challenges. Neuromodulation technologies, such as spinal cord stimula...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
In this chapter, we give an overview of artificial intelligence tools and their use thus far in pediatric neurosurgery. We discuss different machine learning algorithms from a data-driven approach in order to guide clinicians and scientists as they a...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
Disorders affecting the neurological and musculoskeletal systems represent international health burdens. A significant impediment to progress with interventional trials is the absence of responsive, objective, and valid outcome measures sensitive to ...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
Over the past decade, advancements in computational modeling, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence (AI) have been driving innovations in spine surgery. Much of the research conducted in these fields is from the past 5 years. In 2021, the ma...
Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Jan 1, 2024
The advent of different realms of computational neurosurgery-including not only machine intelligence but also visualization techniques such as mixed reality and robotic applications-is beginning to impact both open vascular as well as endovascular ne...