SBA Research

TAPESTRY study: impact of prior transurethral resection of the prostate on outcomes after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a propensity score-matched cohort study

Abstract Prior transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) may distort bladder neck and apical anatomy and complicate robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). Its effect on anastomotic recovery and oncological control remains controversial. To evaluate perioperative, anast...

Kissing Number of Codes: A Survey

The kissing number of a code is the average number of pairs of codewords at minimum distance from each other. It has fundamental applications in determining code performance. Besides, a recent interest has arisen from the field of side-channel analysis of algorithms handling sens...

Identifying and Protecting Records at Risk for Membership Inference Attacks Against Synthetic Data

With increasing interest in leveraging sensitive data, such as health or finanical, for machine learning and other data analysis tasks, the demand for privacy-preserving techniques increases as well. Synthetic data, which is artificially generated by a model trained on real data,...