Journal: Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Article Title: A New Multi-Model Machine Learning Framework to Improve Hepatic Fibrosis Grading Using Ultrasound Elastography Systems from Different Vendors
doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2019.09.004
Figure Lengend Snippet: The proposed multi-model framework for machine learning (ML) based fibrosis staging. This approach will provide a fibrosis staging between 0 to 100 regardless of vendor. In this work we only tested ultrasound elastography shear wave velocity (USE SWV) measurements obtained using Siemens and Philips scanners, with magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) as ground truth. However, in the future this model could be extended to other vendors after additional training and validation on those datasets.
Article Snippet: Most notably, the difference in AUC between median shear wave velocity and SVM was statistically significant for both Siemens and Philips, although the p-value was better for Siemens as it had a larger sample size ( ). table ft1 table-wrap mode="anchored" t5 Table 5. caption a7 p-value Significantly Different Siemens - Median SWV vs. SVM 4.95E-05 Yes Siemens - Median SWV vs. QDA 0.19098 No Siemens - Median SWV vs. Bayesian 0.46593 No Siemens - Median SWV vs. GLRM 0.19098 No Philips - Median SWV vs. SVM 0.036085 Yes Philips - Median SWV vs. QDA 0.32787 No Philips - Median SWV vs. Bayesian 0.22957 No Philips - Median SWV vs. GLRM 0.71877 No Open in a separate window AUC = area-under-the-curve, GLRM = generalized linear regression model, QDA = quadratic discriminant analysis, SVM = support vector machine, SWV = shear wave velocity.
Techniques: Shear, Biomarker Discovery