BACKGROUND: Pouchitis is one of the major postoperative complications of ulcerative colitis (UC), and it is still difficult to predict the development of pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) in UC patients. In this study, we examined w...
International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association
Mar 1, 2022
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the risk factors for postoperative ileus in patients who underwent robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion.
: Traditional assessment of the readiness for the weaning from the mechanical ventilator (MV) needs respiratory parameters in a spontaneous breath. Exempted from the MV disconnecting and manual measurements of weaning parameters, a prediction model b...
Gleason grading, a risk stratification method for prostate cancer, is subjective and dependent on experience and expertise of the reporting pathologist. Deep Learning (DL) systems have shown promise in enhancing the objectivity and efficiency of Glea...
Higher capital costs and operating room costs associated with Lobectomy via Robot Assisted Thoracic Surgery (RATS) have previously been suggested as the principal contributors to the elevated overall cost. This study uses a micro-costing approach to ...
BACKGROUND: Automated catheter localization for ultrasound guided high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy faces challenges relating to imaging noise and artifacts. To date, catheter reconstruction during the clinical procedure is performed manually. De...
INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to elucidate the predictive and prognostic value of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) in patients with invasive bladder cancer (BC).
OBJECTIVES: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is underdiagnosed globally. The present study aimed to develop weakly supervised deep learning (DL) models that utilize computed tomography (CT) image data for the automated detection and stagi...
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