Serious damage to short-term kidney function—known as acute kidney injury, or AKI—can be fatal and also increase the risk of irreversible chronic kidney disease. It can be triggered by stressors ...

1 Department of Surgical Urology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, China 2 Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery II, General Surgery Center, The First Hospital of Jilin ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

Prior CT scans linked with increase in current pregnancy risks Pregnancy risks rise with number of prior CT scans, scans near ovaries Young women should be offered alternatives to CT when possible ...

Background: Medullary sponge kidney (MSK) is a rare congenital anomaly frequently associated with nephrolithiasis. Accurate preoperative differentiation between MSK stones and non-MSK multiple kidney ...

This is the first experiment of Image Segmentation for Kidney-Tumor based on our TensorFlowFlexUNet (TensorFlow Flexible UNet Image Segmentation Model for Multiclass) and a 512x512 pixels ...

1Department of Radiology, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China. 2Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of ...

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Researchers projected that the use of CT scans in 2023 would cause 102,700 lifetime cancers. Radiation from computed tomography (CT) scans may cause as many as 5% of cancers diagnosed each year in the ...

aShanghai Belt and Road International Joint Laboratory of Intelligent Prevention and Treatment for Metabolic Diseases, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Electronic, Information ...