Automated liver fat quantification at nonenhanced abdominal CT for population-based steatosis assessment

PM Graffy, V Sandfort, RM Summers, PJ Pickhardt - Radiology, 2019 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its consequences are a growing public
health concern requiring cross-sectional imaging for noninvasive diagnosis and …

Liver fat is reproducibly measured using computed tomography in the Framingham Heart Study

EK Speliotes, JM Massaro, U Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims: Fatty liver is the hepatic manifestation of obesity, but
community‐based assessment of fatty liver among unselected patients is limited. We sought …

Liver steatosis categorization on contrast-enhanced CT using a fully automated deep learning volumetric segmentation tool: evaluation in 1204 healthy adults using …

PJ Pickhardt, GM Blake, PM Graffy… - American Journal of …, 2021 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
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Two-dimensional convolutional neural network using quantitative US for noninvasive assessment of hepatic steatosis in NAFLD

SK Jeon, JM Lee, I Joo, JH Yoon, G Lee - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Quantitative US (QUS) using radiofrequency data analysis has been recently
introduced for noninvasive evaluation of hepatic steatosis. Deep learning algorithms may …

[HTML][HTML] Non-invasive evaluation of liver steatosis with imaging modalities: New techniques and applications

KY Zeng, YH Wang, M Liao, J Yang… - World journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the world, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) accounts for majority of diffuse hepatic
diseases. Notably, substantial liver fat accumulation can trigger and accelerate hepatic …

Comparative assessment and external validation of hepatic steatosis formulae in a community-based setting

TY Jung, MS Kim, HP Hong, KA Kang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Several hepatic steatosis formulae have been validated in various cohorts using
ultrasonography. However, none of these studies has been validated in a community-based …

Specificity of unenhanced CT for non-invasive diagnosis of hepatic steatosis: implications for the investigation of the natural history of incidental steatosis

PJ Pickhardt, SH Park, L Hahn, SG Lee, KT Bae… - European …, 2012 - Springer
Objectives To determine a highly specific liver attenuation threshold at unenhanced CT for
biopsy-proven moderate to severe hepatic steatosis (≥ 30% at histology). Methods 315 …

Quantification of liver fat content with CT and MRI: state of the art

J Starekova, D Hernando, PJ Pickhardt, SB Reeder - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Hepatic steatosis is defined as pathologically elevated liver fat content and has many
underlying causes. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic …

Assessment of hepatic steatosis in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by using quantitative US

A Han, YN Zhang, AS Boehringer, V Montes, MP Andre… - Radiology, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Advanced confounder-corrected chemical shift–encoded MRI-derived proton
density fat fraction (PDFF) is a leading parameter for fat fraction quantification in …

Liver fat content measurement with quantitative CT validated against MRI proton density fat fraction: a prospective study of 400 healthy volunteers

Z Guo, GM Blake, K Li, W Liang, W Zhang, Y Zhang… - Radiology, 2020 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Although chemical shift–encoded (CSE) MRI proton density fat fraction (PDFF)
is the current noninvasive reference standard for liver fat quantification, the liver is more …