TY - JOUR AU - Ueno, Daiki AU - Makiyama, Kazuhide AU - Yamanaka, Hiroyuki AU - Ijiri, Takashi AU - Yokota, Hideo AU - Kubota, Yoshinobu PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/13 TI - Prediction of open urinary tract in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy by virtual resection plane visualization JO - BMC Urology SP - 47 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - The purpose of this study is presenting a method to predict the presence of an open urinary tract and the position of the opening in laparoscopic partial nephrectomy from three dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) images by using novel image segmentation and visualization techniques. SN - 1471-2490 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2490-14-47 DO - 10.1186/1471-2490-14-47 ID - Ueno2014 ER -