BACKGROUND: Recently, artificial neural network (ANN) methods have also been adopted to deal with the complex multidimensional nonlinear relationship between clinicopathologic variables and survival for patients with gastric cancer. Using a multinati...
Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
Apr 4, 2020
BACKGROUND: Conversions and revisions after bariatric procedures are inevitable and associated with longer operative time and higher complication rates. Because robot-assisted procedures allow better dissection, robotic conversions and revisions may ...
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Mar 7, 2020
BACKGROUND: The common use of laparoscopic intervention produces impressive amounts of video data that are difficult to review for surgeons wishing to evaluate and improve their skills. Therefore, a need exists for the development of computer-based a...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 31, 2019
PURPOSE : Evaluating the quality of surgical procedures is a major concern in minimally invasive surgeries. We propose a bottom-up approach based on the study of Sleeve Gastrectomy procedures, for which we analyze what we assume to be an important in...
BACKGROUND: Multiple patient factors may convey increased risk of 30-day morbidity and mortality after laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy (LVSG). Assessing the likelihood of short-term morbidity is useful for both the bariatric surgeon and pati...
AIMS: Imatinib plasma trough levels (IM Cmin) have been reported to have a considerable clinical impact in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). We therefore have investigated the factors affecting IM plasma concentration in Chinese ...
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Feb 4, 2019
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a computational clinical decision support system (DSS) on the basis of CT radiomics features for the prediction of lymph node (LN) metastasis in gastric cancer (GC) using machine learning-bas...
Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery
Nov 24, 2018
BACKGROUND: Single-anastomosis duodeno-jejunal bypass with sleeve gastrectomy (SADJB-SG) was developed as a simplified technique of DJB-SG, but long-term data are lacking.
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