Texture analysis parameters and contrast enhanced ultrasound as promising procedures for the positive diagnosis of liver cirrhosis

tw=0.99hPurpose: To compare the diagnostic value of texture analysis features of unenhanced liver parenchyma and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) parameters for the differentiation of patients with and without liver cirrhosis. Material and methods: Forty-two patients with chronic liver disease (mean age 57.03 ± 8.54 years), with (n = 27) or without (n = 15) liver cirrhosis and 10 healthy subjects (mean age 45 ± 7.55 years) underwent CEUS. First, unhanded imagines were analyzed using a texture analysis software. Fisher coefficients were used to select an optimized subset of 10 texture features extracted from a…