This article refers to ‘Centre procedural volume and adverse in-hospital outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous transvenous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair using MitraClip® Germany’ by K. Keller et al., published this issue on pages 1380–1389. Percutaneous treatment of regurgitation (MR) with MitraClip (Abbott Vascular, Chicago, IL, USA) is a consolidated therapy for different anatomies....

Prediction of chemical reaction outcomes using machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for advancing materials synthesis. However, this approach requires large and diverse datasets, which are extremely limited in the field nanomaterials synthesis due to inconsistent nonstandardized reporting literature lack understanding synthetic mechanisms. In study, we extracted parameters InP q...

Amine Chellali * : Robotics research group, IRCCyN-Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Department of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance Cedric Dumas: Robotics research group, IRCCyN-Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Biomedical Imaging Group, CSIRO Isabelle Milleville-Pennel: PsyCoTech research group, IRCCyN-CNRS * Corresponding author: Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: Cambridge Health All...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of game dynamics made of a pay-off replicator-like term modulated by an entropy barrier which keeps players away from the boundary of the strategy space. We show that these entropy-driven dynamics are equivalent to players computing a score as their on-going exponentially discounted cumulative payoff and then using a quantal choice model on the scores to ...

Machine learning-based approaches outperform competing methods in most disciplines relevant to diagnostic radiology. Interventional radiology, however, has not yet benefited substantially from the advent of deep learning, in particular because of two reasons: 1) Most images acquired during the procedure are never archived and are thus not available for learning, and 2) even if they were availab...

By combining algorithmic learning, decision procedures, and predicate abstraction, we present an automated technique for finding loop invariants in propositional formulae. Given invariant approximations derived from preand post-conditions, our new technique exploits the flexibility in invariants by a simple randomized mechanism. The proposed technique is able to generate invariants for some Lin...

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy is becoming the method of choice for the surgical removal of the prostate [ 2 ] , with a substantial proportion of radical prostatectomies performed this way in the UK in 2011 .The wristed instruments, 3D vision and 10x magnifi cation and the robotic cart, which obviate the need for an assistant to hold the camera, facilitate the operation, especially the cr...

The offer of new possibilities for teaching and learning with new media increase the complexity of educational environments. This fact consequently increments the possibility of negative learning outcomes, and makes the development of studentinstructor trust more difficult. The design of procedures for learning activities may decrease s complexity by guiding students in the use of complex learn...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIM Measures for competence in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) during training are poorly defined. Currently, various training and accreditation programs base verification of competence on performance of a minimum number of procedures. There is a general awareness that procedural competence certification should be based on objective performance criteri...