Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Jul 17, 2022
PURPOSE: The alarming increase in diseases of urinary system is a cause of concern for the populace and health experts. The traditional techniques used for the diagnosis of these diseases are inconvenient for patients, require high cost, and addition...
Organ volume measurements are a key metric for managing ADPKD (the most common inherited renal disease). However, measuring organ volumes is tedious and involves manually contouring organ outlines on multiple cross-sectional MRI or CT images. The aut...
A retrocaval ureter (RCU) is a rare cause of congenital ureteral obstruction that often requires surgical repair. We report two cases of RCU in adults treated with robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery. In both cases, we performed robotic ureteroureter...
Renal pathology is essential for diagnosing and assessing the severity and prognosis of kidney diseases. Deep learning-based approaches have developed rapidly and have been applied in renal pathology. However, methods for the automated classification...
Within the literature concerning modern machine learning techniques applied to the medical field, there is a growing interest in the application of these technologies to the nephrological area, especially regarding the study of renal pathologies, bec...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Jul 1, 2022
Semi-supervised learning has substantially advanced medical image segmentation since it alleviates the heavy burden of acquiring the costly expert-examined annotations. Especially, the consistency-based approaches have attracted more attention for th...
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN
Jun 29, 2022
BACKGROUND: Total kidney volume (TKV) is an important imaging biomarker in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). Manual computation of TKV, particularly with the exclusion of exophytic cysts, is laborious and time consuming.
We sought to describe the development of the robotic urology program at Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) and the feasibility of transitioning from the da Vinci to Versius robotic systems. The SIUT robotics program began in 2017 u...