期刊
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 2855-2865出版社
AME PUBLISHING COMPANY
DOI: 10.21037/qims-21-863
关键词
Sound touch elastography (STE); supersonic shear imaging (SSI); intersystem variability; rule of four
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82071940]
This study found clear variability between the sound touch elastography (STE) system and the supersonic shear imaging (SSI) system, with the variability increasing as the liver stiffness value (LSV) thresholds recommended by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) rose. Gender and body-mass index (BMI) had little effect on intersystem variability.
Background: Measurements of liver stiffness obtained with 2-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) have been widely used to clinically assess liver fibrosis. However, differences between different 2D-SWE systems can lead to confusion when interpreting measurements. This study investigated the variability between a recently released sound touch elastography (STE) system and a supersonic shear imaging (SSI) system and assessed the degree of intersystem discrepancy using the different liver stiffness value (LSV) thresholds recommended by the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound (SRU) for assessing liver fibrosis. Methods: A total of 4,152 patients who had undergone STE and SSI on the same day were enrolled in this retrospective study. First, intrasystem agreement for STE and SSI was assessed. Then, intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and the Bland-Altman method were used to assess intersystem variability for all cases, classified according to the thresholds recommended by the SRU. The effects of age, gender, and body-mass index (BMI) were evaluated using multivariate linear regression analysis and attributive intervals were computed for STE and SSI at each of the different thresholds. Results: The ICCs for STE and SSI intrasystem agreement were 0.94 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.937-0.943; P<0.001] and 0.984 (95% CI: 0.984-0.985; P<0.001), respectively. The 95% limit of agreement (LOA) for all cases ranged from -6.96 to 7.44 kPa. The 95% LOA increased as the threshold values rose, and intersystem variability was obvious, even at the smallest threshold (the 95% LOA at values <= 5 kPa was -0.85 to 2.08 kPa, while that at values >17 kPa was -20.81 to 14.71 kPa). The adjusted R-2 for age, gender, and BMI was only 0.018 (all P value <0.05). Conclusions: There was clear variability between STE and SSI, in contrast with some previous studies with small sample sizes, and consistent with others. Intersystem variability increased with the elevation of the LSV thresholds recommended by the SRU. Gender and BMI had little effect on intersystem variability. Future research could compare STE and SSI in different liver diseases, assessing the feasibility of the SRU-recommended thresholds in proven pathologies and evaluating the test-retest repeatability.
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