Image Processing Pipeline for Liver Fibrosis Classification Using Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography
The purpose of this study was to develop an automated method for classifying liver fibrosis stage ≥F2 based on ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) and to assess the system's performance in comparison with a reference manual approach. The reference approach consists of manually selecting a region of interest from each of eight or more SWE images, computing the mean tissue stiffness within each of the regions of interest and computing a resulting stiffness value as the median of the means. The 527-subject database consisted of 5526 SWE images and pathologist-scored biopsies, with data collected from a single system at a single site.
Source: Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology - Category: Radiology Authors: Laura J. Brattain, Arinc Ozturk, Brian A. Telfer, Manish Dhyani, Joseph R. Grajo, Anthony E. Samir Tags: Original Contribution Source Type: research
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