Computer-assisted Sonographic Analysis of the Hepatorenal and Textural Features for the Diagnosis of the Fatty Liver

Ji-Wook Jeong; Sooyeul Lee; Jeong Won Lee; Done-Sik Yoo; Seunghwan Kim

doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617194

Computer-assisted Sonographic Analysis of the Hepatorenal and Textural Features for the Diagnosis of the Fatty Liver

Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2005:2005:3348-50. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617194.

Authors

Ji-Wook Jeong¹, Sooyeul Lee, Jeong Won Lee, Done-Sik Yoo, Seunghwan Kim

Affiliation

¹ Electronics & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon.

PMID: 17282963
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617194

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.