Automatic diagnosis of liver steatosis by ultrasound using autoregressive tissue characterization

Liver steatosis is mainly a textural abnormality of the hepatic parenchyma due to fat accumulation on the hepatic vesicles. Today, the assessment is subjectively performed by visual inspection. Here a classifier based on features extracted from ultrasound (US) images is described for the automatic d...

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Main Author: Ribeiro, Ricardo (author)
Other Authors: Sanches, João (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/3939
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ipl.pt:10400.21/3939