Items Tagged ‘John Lieske’
June 6, 2019
Not all stones are created equal
By Advancing the Science contributor 
Mayo Clinic’s CT Clinical Innovation Center recently released the first-ever quantitative Stone Analysis Software (qSAS) for characterizing renal stones from CT images. The product is available at no charge for research use through a software sharing agreement. Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D., Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, co-director of Mayo’s […]
Tags: Andrea Ferrero, artificial intelligence, Cynthia McCullough, John Lieske, kidney stones, urology
September 25, 2018
Can geology upend decades of medical wisdom about kidney stones?
By Advancing the Science contributor
Article by Alex Generous Like stones formed in nature, kidney stones show signs of being partially dissolved and remade. Implication: there may be a way to remove kidney stones without surgery or passing them in urine. An unlikely collaboration between a geologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and researchers at Mayo Clinic has overturned […]
Tags: Jessica Saw, John Lieske, kidney stones, Michael Romero, nephrology, urology