Computerized ultrasound B-scan texture analysis of experimental diffuse parenchymal liver disease: Correlation with histopathology and tissue composition
✍ Scribed by Guenter Layer; Ivan Zuna; Adolf Lorenz; Heide Zerban; Uwe Haberkorn; Peter Bannasch; Gerhard van Kaick; Ulrich Räth
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 753 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
By means of statistical pattern recognition procedures, a quantitative de- scription of the ultrasound B-scan images of experimental diffuse liver disease has been carried out. Fatty livers, fatty fibrosiskirrhosis, and cirrhosis without fatty infiltration of the liver were studied in female Wistar rats. Separation accuracies of more than 80% between the tissue classes "normal" vs "fatty infiltration," or "normal" vs "fatty cirrhosis," using only two statistical image parameters were found. A subclassification of the diffuse parenchymal liver disease was not possible. It is shown by mul-