Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology
Nov 2, 2019
INTRODUCTION: The antiinflammatory effects of macrolides, especially clarithromycin, have been described in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis without polyps and also other chronic inflammatory airway diseases. There is no consensus in the literatu...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 23, 2019
PURPOSE: In minimally invasive surgery and endoscopy, the rise of soft robotics, using materials of similar softness as biological soft tissues, opens many new opportunities. Soft actuated catheters could become an alternative to current steerable ca...
BACKGROUND: Upper gastrointestinal cancers (including oesophageal cancer and gastric cancer) are the most common cancers worldwide. Artificial intelligence platforms using deep learning algorithms have made remarkable progress in medical imaging but ...
Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society
Oct 2, 2019
BACKGROUND AND AIM: It is necessary to establish universal methods for endoscopic diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection, such as computer-aided diagnosis. In the present study, we propose a multistage diagnosis algorithm for HP infection.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Sep 5, 2019
Despite successful clinical applications, teleoperated robotic surgical systems face particular limitations in the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in terms of incompatible instrument dimensions and robot set-up. The endoscope remains manua...
Haptic feedback for flexible endoscopic surgical robots is challenging due to space constraints for sensors and shape-dependent force hysteresis of tendon-sheath mechanisms (TSMs). This paper proposes (1) a single-axis fiber Bragg grating (FBG)-based...
BACKGROUND: Visual inspection, lesion detection, and differentiation between malignant and benign features are key aspects of an endoscopist's role. The use of machine learning for the recognition and differentiation of images has been increasingly a...
BACKGROUND: We sought to identify the independent predictors of blood transfusion requirement in robotic beating-heart patients with totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB).
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