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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2021

Evaluation of ultrasonic fibrosis diagnostic system using convolutional network for ordinal regression.

Ryosuke Saito, Norihiro Koizumi, Yu Nishiyama, Tsubasa Imaizumi, Kenta Kusahara, Shiho Yagasaki, Naoki Matsumoto, Ryota Masuzaki, Toshimi Takahashi, Masahiro Ogawa

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Article in International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Ryosuke SaitoThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan.
Norihiro KoizumiThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan. nkoizumi@ieee.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1111-9942
Yu NishiyamaThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan.
Tsubasa ImaizumiThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan.
Kenta KusaharaThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan.
Shiho YagasakiThe University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan.
Naoki MatsumotoNihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
Ryota MasuzakiNihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshimi TakahashiNihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
Masahiro OgawaNihon University, Tokyo, Japan.
University of Electro-Communications · JPNihon University · JP

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purposeDiagnosis of liver fibrosis is important for establishing treatment and assessing the risk of carcinogenesis. Ultrasound imaging is an excellent diagnostic method as a screening test in terms of non-invasiveness and simplicity. The purpose of this study was to automatically diagnose liver fibrosis using ultrasound images to reduce the burden on physicians.

methodsWe proposed and implemented a system for extracting regions of liver parenchyma utilizing U-Net. Using regions of interest, the stage of fibrosis was classified as F0, F1, F2, F3, or F4 utilizing CORALNet, an ordinal regression model based on ResNet18. The effectiveness of the proposed system was verified.

resultsThe system implemented using U-Net had a maximum mean Dice coefficient of 0.929. The results of classification of liver fibrosis utilizing CORALNet had a mean absolute error (MAE) of 1.22 and root mean square error (RMSE) of 1.60. The per-case results had a MAE of 1.55 and RMSE of 1.34.

conclusionU-Net extracted regions of liver parenchyma from the images with high accuracy, and CORALNet showed effectiveness using ordinal information to classify fibrosis in the images. As a future task, we will study a model that is less dependent on teaching data.

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Liver CirrhosisUltrasonicsFibrosisHumansLiverDeep learningLiver fibrosisUltrasound image

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