Background and objective Segmentation is an essential step in computer-aided diagnosis
and treatment planning of kidney diseases. In recent years, several researchers proposed …

Renal colic is a common emergency department (ED) presentation. The use of CT in the
diagnosis of renal colic has increased over the past two decades and is now the most …

We performed a prospective study of patients with suspected ureteral colic to evaluate the
test characteristics of bedside renal ultrasonography (US) performed by emergency …

Although the majority of injuries to the genitourinary (GU) tract do not result in an immediate
threat to life, failure to properly evaluate and treat these injuries may result in significant long …

BACKGROUND: As emergency ultrasound use explodes around the world, it is important to
realize the path its development has taken and learn from trials and tribulations of early …

Background The kidney is the third most common solid organ injury in blunt abdominal
trauma. The preferred treatment of blunt kidney injury varies according to grade of severity …

Ultrasound is widely used in the US and continental Europe in the immediate assessment of
patients after blunt abdominal trauma. There are also now other recognised “primary” …

Objective: To assess the accuracy and benefit of urgent bedside ultrasound scanning in
urological emergencies by urology trainees. Methods: In this prospective study, 111 patients …

Background: Renal colic is a common clinical presentation in emergency. The goal of this
study was to describe the epidemiology, current diagnostic and treatment strategies of …

Background: Abdominal organs are important organs that sense and respond to ischemia
and hypoxia, but there are few evaluation methods. We use ultrasonography to evaluate …