Trial reportEuropean radiology2014
Ultrasound point shear wave elastography assessment of liver and spleen stiffness: effect of training on repeatability of measurements.
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- Diagnostic accuracy of two-dimensional shear wave elastography and point shear wave elastography in identifying different stages of liver fibrosis in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: A meta-analysis.Biomolecules & biomedicine · 2025Pooled it
- Intra-Observer Reproducibility of Endoscopic Ultrasound Point Shear-Wave Elastography: A 120-Patient Prospective Cohort Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- Assessing Venous Congestion in Heart Failure: A Review of Splanchnic, Cardiac, and Pulmonary Ultrasound: Part 2: Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Shear Wave.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Shear wave elastography in healthy patients: Pancreatic stiffness is less reliable than liver and spleen measurements.World journal of radiology · 2025Article
- Diagnostic insights into splenic pathologies: the role of multiparametric ultrasound.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2025Review
- Autonomous robotic ultrasound scanning system: a key to enhancing image analysis reproducibility and observer consistency in ultrasound imaging.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Reproducibility of ultrasound-derived fat fraction in measuring hepatic steatosis.Insights into imaging · 2024Article
- Acoustic radiation force-induced longitudinal shear wave for ultrasound-based viscoelastic evaluation.Ultrasonics · 2024Article
- Enhancing liver cirrhosis varices and CSPH risk prediction with spleen stiffness measurement using 100-Hz probe.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ultrasound Elastography as a Diagnostic Tool for Peyronie's Disease: A State-of-the-Art Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Spleen stiffness measurement as a non-invasive assessment in patients with portal hypertension.eGastroenterology · 2024Review
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- Quantifying the Elasticity Properties of the Median Nerve during the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1.Applied bionics and biomechanics · 2022Article
- Comparison of point and two-dimensional shear wave elastography of the spleen in healthy subjects.World journal of radiology · 2021Article
- Spleen elastography in patients with Systemic sclerosis.Rheumatology international · 2021Article
- Liver Fibrosis in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: From Liver Biopsy to Non-invasive Biomarkers in Diagnosis and Treatment.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Review
- The Use of Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography in People with Obesity for the Assessment of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Elastography for Longitudinal Assessment of Liver Fibrosis after Antiviral Therapy: A Review.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2020Review
- Elastography Techniques for the Assessment of Liver Fibrosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Diagnostic problems in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of the liver.World journal of radiology · 2020Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate reproducibility of measurements of spleen stiffness (SS) and liver stiffness (LS) at several sites by using point shear wave elastography (pSWE) and to investigate any training effect.
methodsHealthy volunteers were consecutively enrolled. Measurements of SS and LS were performed by an expert (observer 1) and a novice (observer 2) at three different sites of liver and spleen. To assess the effect of training the study was conducted in two periods (period 1 and period 2). Concordance correlation coefficient was used to assess intra-observer and inter-observer reproducibility.
resultsA total of 92 subjects (67 men and 25 women) were enrolled in the study. Both intra-observer and inter-observer agreement were higher for the liver than for the spleen. Overall, the highest intra-observer and inter-observer agreement were obtained for the assessment of LS through intercostal space, and for measurements at this site there was a significantly better performance of observer 2 after the training period. For both observers, training improved the repeatability of SS measurements at all sites. A good intra-observer agreement was obtained only for measurements at the spleen lower pole.
conclusionsThe results of this study show that a learning curve in pSWE acquisition should be taken into account both for SS and LS measurements. KEY POINTS: Reproducibility of SS measurements depends on the expertise of the operator. To achieve good reproducibility between measurements a training period is required. A learning curve in pSWE acquisition should be taken into account. SS measurements are less reproducible than LS measurements.
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