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JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 453-464Publisher
MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(00)80397-9
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automatic quantification; image processing; liver fibrosis; portal-periportal morphometry
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Background/Aims: Liver fibrosis is one of the most important and characteristic histologic alterations in progressive and chronic liver diseases, Thus, in both clinical and experimental practice, it is fundamental to have a reliable and objective method for its precise quantification. Several semi-quantitative scoring systems have been described, All are time-consuming and produce partially subjective fibrosis evaluations that are not very precise, This paper describes the design and validation of an original image analysis-based application, FibroQuant, for automatically and rapidly quantifying perisinusoidal, perivenular and portal-periportal and septal fibrosis and portal-periportal and septal morphology in liver histologic specimens. Methods: The implemented image-processing algorithms automatically segment interstitial fibrosis areas, while extraction of portal-periportal and septal region is carried out with an automatic algorithm and a simple interactive step. For validation, all automatically extracted areas were also manually segmented and quantified. Results: Statistical analysis showed significant intra- and interoperator variability in manual segmentation of all areas, Automatic quantifications did not significantly differ from mean manual evaluations of the same areas, Comparison of our image analysis quantifications with staging histologic evaluations of liver fibrosis showed significant correlations (Spearman's, 0.72
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