A Machine-Learning Algorithm Toward Color Analysis for Chronic Liver Disease Classification, Employing Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography.

The purpose of the present study was to employ a computer-aided diagnosis system that classifies chronic liver disease (CLD) using ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) imaging, with a stiffness value-clustering and machine-learning algorithm. A clinical data set of 126 patients (56 healthy contr...

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Publicado en:Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology Vol. 43; no. 9; pp. 1797 - 1811
Autores principales: Gatos, Ilias, Tsantis, Stavros, Spiliopoulos, Stavros, Karnabatidis, Dimitris, Theotokas, Ioannis, Zoumpoulis, Pavlos, Loupas, Thanasis, Hazle, John D., Kagadis, George C.
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Sep2017
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          Gatos, Ilias
          Tsantis, Stavros
          Spiliopoulos, Stavros
          Karnabatidis, Dimitris
          Theotokas, Ioannis
          Zoumpoulis, Pavlos
          Loupas, Thanasis
          Hazle, John D.
          Kagadis, George C.
        affil: Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Rion, Greece
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          Diagnosis, Computer Assisted Methods
          Ultrasonography Methods
          Liver Diseases
          Aged
          Female
          Sensitivity and Specificity
          Adolescence
          Color
          Male
          Young Adult
          Chronic Disease
          Liver
          Middle Age
          Algorithms
          Human
          Aged: 65+ years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
          Male
      ab: The purpose of the present study was to employ a computer-aided diagnosis system that classifies chronic liver disease (CLD) using ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) imaging, with a stiffness value-clustering and machine-learning algorithm. A clinical data set of 126 patients (56 healthy controls, 70 with CLD) was analyzed. First, an RGB-to-stiffness inverse mapping technique was employed. A five-cluster segmentation was then performed associating corresponding different-color regions with certain stiffness value ranges acquired from the SWE manufacturer-provided color bar. Subsequently, 35 features (7 for each cluster), indicative of physical characteristics existing within the SWE image, were extracted. A stepwise regression analysis toward feature reduction was used to derive a reduced feature subset that was fed into the support vector machine classification algorithm to classify CLD from healthy cases. The highest accuracy in classification of healthy to CLD subject discrimination from the support vector machine model was 87.3% with sensitivity and specificity values of 93.5% and 81.2%, respectively. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis gave an area under the curve value of 0.87 (confidence interval: 0.77-0.92). A machine-learning algorithm that quantifies color information in terms of stiffness values from SWE images and discriminates CLD from healthy cases is introduced. New objective parameters and criteria for CLD diagnosis employing SWE images provided by the present study can be considered an important step toward color-based interpretation, and could assist radiologists' diagnostic performance on a daily basis after being installed in a PC and employed retrospectively, immediately after the examination.
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