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Liver Fibrosis Assessment Using Radiomics of Ultrasound Homodyned-K imaging Based on the Artificial Neural Network Estimator.

Ultrasonic Imaging 2022 August 27
The homodyned-K distribution is an important ultrasound backscatter envelope statistics model of physical meaning, and the parametric imaging of the model parameters has been explored for quantitative ultrasound tissue characterization. In this paper, we proposed a new method for liver fibrosis characterization by using radiomics of ultrasound backscatter homodyned-K imaging based on an improved artificial neural network (iANN) estimator. The iANN estimator was used to estimate the ultrasound homodyned-K distribution parameters k and α from the backscattered radiofrequency (RF) signals of clinical liver fibrosis ( n = 237), collected with a 3-MHz convex array transducer. The RF data were divided into two groups: Group I corresponded to liver fibrosis with no hepatic steatosis ( n = 94), and Group II corresponded to liver fibrosis with mild to severe hepatic steatosis ( n = 143). The estimated homodyned-K parameter values were then used to construct k and α parametric images using the sliding window technique. Radiomics features of k and α parametric images were extracted, and feature selection was conducted. Logistic regression classification models based on the selected radiomics features were built for staging liver fibrosis. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is overall superior to the radiomics method of uncompressed envelope images when assessing liver fibrosis. Regardless of hepatic steatosis, the proposed method achieved the best performance in staging liver fibrosis ≥ F1 , ≥ F4 , and the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.88, 0.85 (Group I), and 0.85, 0.86 (Group II), respectively. Radiomics has improved the ability of ultrasound backscatter statistical parametric imaging to assess liver fibrosis, and is expected to become a new quantitative ultrasound method for liver fibrosis characterization.

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