Detection of Corneal Ulcer Using a Genetic Algorithm-Based Image Selection and Residual Neural Network.

Corneal ulcer is one of the most devastating eye diseases causing permanent damage. There exist limited soft techniques available for detecting this disease. In recent years, deep neural networks (DNN) have significantly solved numerous classification problems.

Melatonin protects kidney against apoptosis induced by acute unilateral ureteral obstruction in rats.

Introduction: To investigate whether there was a protective effect of melatonin on apoptotic mechanisms after an acute unilateral obstruction of the kidney.

Material And Methods: A total of 25 rats consisting of five groups were used in the study, designated as follows: Group 1: control, Group 2: sham, Group 3: unilateral ureteral obstruction treated with only saline, Group 4: unilateral ureteral obstruction treated with melatonin immediately, and Group 5: unilateral obstruction treated with melatonin one day after obstruction. Melatonin was administered as a 10 mg/kg dose intraperitoneally.

The effectiveness of local steroid injection after internal urethrotomy to avoid recurrence.

Objective: Local steroid injection to the stricture region after internal urethrotomy (IU) is a promising technique to avoid the recurrence, although the effectiveness and safety of this technique is still controversial. We aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of local steroids as applied with the IU procedure.

Material-method: A total of 83 patients data with urethral stricture in men were examined retrospectively.

What is harmful for male fertility: cell phone or the wireless Internet?

In this study, we aimed to assess the potential harmful effects of radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation on sperm parameters. We requested semen for analyses from the male patients coming to our infertility division and also asked them to fill out an anonymous questionnaire. We queried their mobile phone and wireless Internet usage frequencies in order to determine their radiofrequency-electromagnetic radiation exposure.

The comparison of the influence between two different bowel preparation methods on sepsis after prostate biopsies.

Introduction: Transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) guided prostate needle biopsy has been performed to diagnose and stage prostate cancer for many years. There are many different bowel preparation protocols to diminish the infectious complications, but there is no standardized consensus among urologists. Therefore, we aimed to assess two different bowel preparation methods on the rate of infectious complications in patients who underwent TRUS-guided prostate biopsy.