Quantitative assessment of liver fibrosis: A novel automated image analysis method

Liver International

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1054-1064

  Matalka, Ismail I ^a   Al Jarrah, Omar M ^a   Manasrah, Toqa M ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Automatic quantification; Ishak scoring; Liver fibrosis; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; MEDICAL EXPERT; PATHOLOGIST; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

BIOPSY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33749648406     PISSN: 14783223     EISSN: 14783231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2006.01341.x     Document Type: Article

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