BACKGROUND: An artificial intelligence system of Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Faster R-CNN) is newly developed for the diagnosis of metastatic lymph node (LN) in rectal cancer patients. The primary objective of this study was to ...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
We report a case of pelvic metastasis of rectal cancer that developed 10 years after curative resection. An 81-year-old woman underwent intersphincteric resection for lower rectal cancer 10 years previously. The tumor was pathologically diagnosed as ...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Dec 1, 2018
We treateda 70-year-oldfemale patient with locally advancedrectal cancer accompaniedby metastases to other organs. Three courses of S-1 plus oxaliplatin(SOX)therapy were administered as neoadjuvant chemotherapy(NAC), andthe cancer was subsequently tr...
Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences
Nov 28, 2018
To investigate the feasibility and therapeutic effect of laparoscopy combined with total intersphincteric resection (Total-ISR) for extremely low rectal cancer. Methods: We performed laparoscopy combined with Total-ISR in 45 patients with extremely ...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
Accurate, robust, and fast delineation of the clinical target volume (CTV) for the use in radiotherapy of rectal cancer (RC) is highly sought-after. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven themselves very effective in various segmentation ta...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2017
In February 2011, a male patient in his 60's underwent a low anterior resection and lateral lymph node dissection for lower rectal cancer. Due to large intestinal obstruction from local recurrence, an abdominoperineal resection was performed 5 years ...