In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS),
which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on …

BACKGROUND The current TNM staging system for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
(HCC) does not include liver function parameters and does not provide a precise prognosis …

Background: Single-agent doxorubicin has been widely used to treat unresectable
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but the response rate is low (<20%) and there is no convincing …

Over the past decade, uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has evolved
dramatically into a sophisticated technique capable of performing some of the most complex …

Background Resection of hepatocellular carcinoma is potentially curative, but local
recurrence is common. In this prospective randomised trial, we aimed to find out if one dose of …

Background and Purpose— The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and
performance of the Wingspan stent system and Gateway percutaneous transluminal angioplasty …

Data privacy mechanisms are essential for rapidly scaling medical training databases to
capture the heterogeneity of patient data distributions toward robust and generalizable machine …

Importance Prior randomized trials have generally shown harm or no benefit of stenting
added to medical therapy for patients with symptomatic severe intracranial atherosclerotic …

Swarming micro/nanorobots offer great promise in performing targeted delivery inside
diverse hard-to-reach environments. However, swarm navigation in dynamic environments …

Background: As RNA is labile, we investigated whether circulating RNA in human plasma
may be present in a particle-associated form. Methods: Blood was collected from 27 healthy …