PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To review the integration of robotics in urology residency programs and evaluate how it has impacted a graduates' level of surgical competence.
As the quantity and quality of cross-sectional imaging data increase, it is important to be able to make efficient use of the information. Semantic segmentation is an emerging technology that promises to improve the speed, reproducibility, and accura...
Ultimately, new (digital) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI) applications are changing the working environment in urology. This can be an opportunity for further development, but also a change which is not desired. Adjustments to work proces...
INTRODUCTION: Robotic technologies are being increasingly implemented in healthcare, including urology, and holding promises for improving medicine worldwide. However, these new approaches raise ethical concerns for professionals, patients, researche...
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has represented the main innovation in the field of pediatric surgery and urology over the last 30 years. Pediatric MIS is a wide field, ranging from the standard laparoscopic surgery using 3-mm ports to robotics main...
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
Jun 25, 2021
BACKGROUND: Robotic assistance has become established in surgery but is not yet a standard procedure. The current status of clinical dissemination in Germany remains unclear. Industry independent sources are scarce.
Progres en urologie : journal de l'Association francaise d'urologie et de la Societe francaise d'urologie
Jun 18, 2021
INTRODUCTION: The development of robot-assisted urological surgery is held back by the lack of robust medico-economic analyses and their heterogeneity. We conducted a medico-economic study to evaluate the implementation of measures to optimize the tr...
There continues to be rapid developments and research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Urological Oncology worldwide. In this review we discuss the basics of AI, application of AI per tumour group (Renal, Prostate and Bladder Cancer) a...
In 2012, the European Association of Urology (EAU) Ad Hoc Panel proposed a standardised methodology on reporting and grading complications after urological surgical procedures. The aim of the current study was to assess the impact of this implementat...