Journal
ACADEMIC RADIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 401-411Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.09.018
Keywords
Contrast-enhanced sonography; computer-aided diagnosis; focal liver lesions; Sonazoid
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Rational and Objectives. To develop a computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) scheme for classifying focal fiver lesions (FLLs) by use of physicians' Subjective classification of echogenic patterns of FLLs oil baseline and contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography (US). Materials and Methods. A total of 137 hepatic lesions in 137 patients were evaluated with B-mode and NC100100 (Sonazoid)enhanced pulse-inversion US: lesions included 74 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) (23: well-differentiated, 36: moderately differentiated. 15: poorly differentiated HCCs), 33 liver metastases, and 30 liver hemangiomas. Three physicians evaluated single images at B-mode and arterial phases with a cine mode. Physicians were asked to classify each lesion into one of eight B-mode and one of eight enhancement patterns, but did not make a diagnosis. To classify live types of FLLs, we employed a decision tree model with four decision nodes and four artificial neural networks (ANNs). The restults of the physicians pattern classifications Were used successively for four different ANNs in making decisions at each of the decision nodes in the decision tree model. Results. The classification accuracies for the 137 FLLs were 84.8% for metastasis, 93.3% for hemangioma, and 98.6% for all HCCs. In addition. the classification accuracies for histological differentiation types of HCCs were 65.2% for well-differentiated HCC. 41.7% for moderately differentiated HCC, and 80.0% for poorly differentiated HCC. Conclusions. This CAD scheme has the potential to improve the diagnostic accuracy of liver lesions. However. the accuracy in the histologic differential diagnosis of HCC based oil baseline and contrast-enhanced US is still limited.
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