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ArticleScientific reports2025

Automated liver and spleen segmentation for MR elastography maps using U-Nets.

Noah Jaitner, Jakob Ludwig, Tom Meyer, Oliver Boehm, Matthias Anders, Biru Huang, Jakob Jordan, Tobias Schaeffter, Ingolf Sack, Rolf Reiter

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. 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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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Noah JaitnerDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Jakob LudwigDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Tom MeyerDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Oliver BoehmDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Matthias AndersDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Biru HuangDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Jakob JordanDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Tobias SchaeffterDivision of Medical Physics and Metrological Information Technology, Physikalisch- Technische Bundesanstalt, Abbestr. 2-12, 10587, Berlin, Germany.
Ingolf SackDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
Rolf ReiterDepartment of Radiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany. rolf.reiter@charite.de.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To compare pretrained and trained U-Nets for liver and spleen segmentation in multifrequency magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) magnitude images for automated quantification of shear wave speed (SWS). Seventy-two healthy participants (34 ± 11 years; BMI, 23 ± 2 kg/m

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Elasticity Imaging TechniquesImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLiverMagnetic Resonance ImagingSpleenAdultFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adult

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PMID40155744
PMCPMC11953449

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