Title :
Computer-assisted Sonographic Analysis of the Hepatorenal and Textural Features for the Diagnosis of the Fatty Liver
Author :
Jeong, Ji-Wook ; Lee, Sooyeul ; Lee, Jeong Won ; Yoo, Done-Sik ; Kim, Seunghwan
Author_Institution :
Electronics & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon
Abstract :
We investigated the B-mode ultrasound (US) images of abdomen by normalizing the gray level values of the liver with the representative gray levels (RGL´s) of the liver parenchyma, renal cortex, subcutaneous fat, to quantify the fatty infiltration of the liver (FIL). The RGL´s were compared with the clinical diagnosis of the FIL showing good correlation between them
Keywords :
biomedical ultrasonics; image texture; kidney; liver; medical image processing; B-mode ultrasound images; abdomen; clinical diagnosis; computer-assisted sonographic analysis; fatty infiltration; fatty liver diagnosis; hepatorenal features; liver parenchyma; renal cortex; representative gray levels; subcutaneous fat; textural features; Biology computing; Clinical diagnosis; Degradation; Distributed computing; Gold; Gray-scale; Histograms; Liver; Statistical analysis; Statistical distributions; Computer-Assisted Diagnosis; Fatty Liver; Ultrasound;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617194
