Robotically-Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting by Thierry A. Folliguet, Alain Dibie, François Philippe, Fabrice Larrazet, Michel S. Slama, François Laborde

“…Objectives. Robotic surgery enables to perform coronary surgery totally endoscopically. …”
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Robotic Systems for Hand Rehabilitation—Past, Present and Future by Bogdan Gherman, Ionut Zima, Calin Vaida, Paul Tucan, Adrian Pisla, Iosif Birlescu, Jose Machado, Doina Pisla

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Postoperative Outcomes After Robotic Liver Resection of Caudate Lobe: A Systematic Review by Gabriela Del Angel Millan, Gianluca Cassese, Fabio Giannone, Celeste Del Basso, Mariantonietta Alagia, Marco Lodin, Igor Monsellato, Marco Palucci, Federico Sangiuolo, Fabrizio Panaro

“…In total, 24 out of 110 patients (21.8%) developed postoperative complications, with 1.8% of all patients developing a major complication (Clavien–Dindo classification ≥ III). No perioperative deaths were reported by the included studies. <i>Conclusions</i>: Few retrospective studies investigating the outcomes of robotic resection of the caudate lobe are currently available in the literature. …”
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Editorial: Mechanism explorations of enhancing immunotherapeutic sensitivity via mediating immune infiltration and programmed cell death in solid tumor microenvironment by Fang Zheng, Fang Zheng, Fang Zheng, Zhiliang Li, Ruoyu Weng, Baochi Ou, Tao Zhang, Ren Zhao, Ren Zhao, Ren Zhao, Haoran Feng, Haoran Feng, Haoran Feng

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Loading of CAR‐T cells with magnetic nanoparticles for controlled targeting suppresses inflammatory cytokine release and switches tumor cell death mechanism by Felix Pfister, Lucas R. Carnell, Lisa Löffler, Philipp Boosz, Niels Schaft, Jan Dörrie, René Stein, Malte Lenz, Erdmann Spiecker, Christian M. Huber, Sami Haddadin, Carola Berking, Christoph Alexiou, Christina Janko

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Robotic-assisted left thoracic small-incision minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting: a case series report by HE Peiling, SONG Yi, YUAN Ye

“…Objective‍　‍To summarize the clinical efficacy of robotic-assisted left thoracic small-incision minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting （MIDCAB）. …”
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Methods Used in Urban Search and Rescue in Disasters and Evaluation of Current Approaches by Gürkan Yılmaz, Sevda Demiröz Yıldırım

“…Disaster is an event that results in serious physical and death of large number of people, because of earthquake, tsunami, flood, landslide, volcano eruption, hurricane, hose, airplane accidents, train accidents, nuclear power plant accidents, explosions and terrorist attacks. …”
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Utilizing vaginal natural orifice to facilitate bowel manipulation during totally intracorporeal ileal conduit construction: a retrospective cohort study by Kaipeng Jia, Shiwang Huang, Zhun Wang, Yuda Lin, Yiduo Bai, Chong Shen, Zhe Zhang, Zhouliang Wu, Yunkai Qie, Hailong Hu

“…In the MICUD group, there was one case of local tumor recurrence, two cases of distant metastasis, including one death from progression; in the ECUD group, one patient had distant metastasis and died from progression.Conclusion RARC with MICUD represents a safe, feasible and easy-to-learn minimally invasive surgical approach. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning for time-critical wilderness search and rescue using drones by Jan-Hendrik Ewers, David Anderson, Douglas Thomson

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Logistic Regression Model in a Machine Learning Application to Predict Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients with Worse Renal Function One Year after Kidney Transplant: Elderly KTbo... by Ubiracé Fernando Elihimas Júnior, Jamila Pinho Couto, Wallace Pereira, Michel Pompeu Barros de Oliveira Sá, Eduardo Eriko Tenório de França, Filipe Carrilho Aguiar, Diogo Buarque Cordeiro Cabral, Saulo Barbosa Vasconcelos Alencar, Saulo José da Costa Feitosa, Thais Oliveira Claizoni dos Santos, Helen Conceição dos Santos Elihimas, Emilly Pereira Alves, Marcio José de Carvalho Lima, Frederico Castelo Branco Cavalcanti, Paulo Adriano Schwingel

“…The primary endpoint was to compare elderly versus younger KT recipients by analyzing the risk covariables involved in worsening renal function, proteinuria, graft loss, and death one year after KT. The secondary endpoint was to create a robot based on logistic regression capable of predicting the likelihood that elderly recipients will develop worse renal function one year after KT. …”
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A Task Allocation Algorithm Based on Score Incentive Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks by Feng Wang, Guangjie Han, Jinfang Jiang, Wei Li, Lei Shu

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A patient-derived HCC spheroid system to model the tumor microenvironment and treatment response by Emilie Crouchet, Nuno Almeida, Sarah C. Durand, Marie Parnot, Marine A. Oudot, Fabio Giannone, Cloé Gadenne, Natascha Roehlen, Antonio Saviano, Emanuele Felli, Patrick Pessaux, Hong Tuan Duong, Hideki Ohdan, Hiroshi Aikata, Kazuaki Chayama, Thomas F. Baumert, Catherine Schuster

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Surgical resection, radiotherapy and percutaneous thermal ablation for treatment of stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Arun Chockalingam, Menelaos Konstantinidis, Brandon Koo, John Timothy Moon, Andrew Tran, Sahar Nourouzpour, Emily Lawson, Kathleen Fox, Peiman Habibollahi, Bruno Odisio, Mohammed Loya, Ali Bassir, Nariman Nezami

“…The primary outcomes will include cancer-specific survival, lung disease-free survival, locoregional recurrence, death, toxicity and non-target organ injury. We will also search published and unpublished studies in trial registries and will review references of included studies for possible inclusion. …”
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Image-Based Detection and Classification of Malaria Parasites and Leukocytes with Quality Assessment of Romanowsky-Stained Blood Smears by Jhonathan Sora-Cardenas, Wendy M. Fong-Amaris, Cesar A. Salazar-Centeno, Alejandro Castañeda, Oscar D. Martínez-Bernal, Daniel R. Suárez, Carol Martínez

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Splenic artery aneurysms – a systematic review of the literature by Marta Machado, Andreia Coelho, João Peixoto, Luís Fernandes, Roberto Boal, Francisco Basílio, Patrícia Carvalho, Beatriz Guimarães, Pedro Brandão, Alexandra Canedo

“…Overall, there were three perioperative deaths, all in the OS group (mortality: 23.0 [95% CI 0.0-96.3]. …”
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