Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes
Oct 7, 2022
INTRODUCTION: the use of telepresence grows with the advancement of technology integration into medical practice. Regarding surgery, effective distance communication can translate into better perioperative care. Though, the patients' perception about...
PURPOSE: Postoperative recovery of urinary continence has a great impact on quality of life for patients undergoing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). A variety of surgical techniques including reconstruction of the periurethral structure h...
Quantitative, data-driven models for mental representations have long enjoyed popularity and success in psychology (e.g., distributional semantic models in the language domain), but have largely been missing for the visual domain. To overcome this, w...
Biomedizinische Technik. Biomedical engineering
Oct 6, 2022
Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) is a disorder in Red Blood Cells (RBCs) of human blood. Children under five years and pregnant women are mostly affected by SCA. Early diagnosis of this ailment can save lives. In recent years, the computer aided diagnosis of...
BACKGROUND: Most of existing deep learning research in medical image analysis is focused on networks with stronger performance. These networks have achieved success, while their architectures are complex and even contain massive parameters ranging fr...
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the added value of robotic-assistance in the abdominal phase during esophagectomy is scarce. In 2003, our center implemented the robotic thoracic phase for esophagectomy. In November 2018 the robot was also implemented in the ...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Oct 6, 2022
BACKGROUND: Image registration is a crucial technology in robot-assisted knee arthroplasty, which provides real-time patient information by registering the pre-operative image data with data acquired during the operation. The existing registration me...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Oct 6, 2022
BACKGROUND: Low-dose rate brachytherapy is the referent treatment for early-stage prostate cancer and consists in manually inserting radioactive seeds within the organ to destroy tumorous cells. This treatment is inaccurate leading to side effects. R...
PURPOSE: We aimed to investigate the usefulness of iViz air ver.4 Convex (FUJIFILM, Tokyo) as a tool to determine the bladder capacity before prostate radiotherapy by comparing it with the existing BladderScan BVI 6100 (Verathon Inc., Bothell, Washin...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
Oct 6, 2022
To predict the gamma passing rate (GPR) of the three-dimensional (3D) detector array-based volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) quality assurance (QA) for prostate cancer using a convolutional neural network (CNN) with the 3D dose distribution. On...
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