OBJECTIVE: Technological advances have significantly fostered the use of robotics in neurosurgery. Due to their novelty, there is a need to develop training methods within neurosurgical residency programs that provide trainees the skills to utilize t...
PURPOSE: Over 4.83 million spine surgery procedures are performed annually around the world. With the considerable caseload and the precision needed to achieve optimal spinal instrumentation, technical progress has helped to improve the technique's s...
Neurosurgery is mainly for the treatment of head trauma, cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, and spinal cord disorders. These operations are difficult and risky, so disability and mortality are high. To reduce the risk of surgery, reduce postopera...
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
Jan 28, 2022
PURPOSE: The majority of lumbar spine surgery referrals do not proceed to surgery. Early identification of surgical candidates in the referral process could expedite their care, whilst allowing timelier implementation of non-operative strategies for ...
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Jan 28, 2022
We sought to develop natural language processing (NLP) methods for automated detection and characterization of neuromonitoring documentation from free-text operative reports in patients undergoing spine surgery. We included 13,718 patients who receiv...
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Jan 27, 2022
PURPOSE: Patients with pharmacoresistant refractory epilepsy may require epilepsy surgery to prevent future seizure occurrences. Conventional surgery consists of a large craniotomy with straight rigid tools with associated outcomes of morbidity, larg...
Recent years have witnessed artificial intelligence (AI) make meteoric leaps in both medicine and surgery, bridging the gap between the capabilities of humans and machines. Digitization of operating rooms and the creation of massive quantities of dat...
OBJECTIVE: No accurate predictive models were identified for hormonal prognosis in non-functioning pituitary adenoma (NFPA). This study aimed to develop machine learning (ML) models to facilitate the prognostic assessment of pituitary hormonal outcom...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Sep 12, 2021
BACKGROUND: The traditional surgical instruments for transnasal endoscopic skull base surgery have poor flexibility and continuum robot has attracted extensive attention for its high dexterity and safety.
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