… consecutive series of patients who underwent liver biopsy for CHC in University Hospital
Bucharest. Histopathological staging of liver fibrosis according to the METAVIR scoring system …

… The operator, assisted by a real-time B-mode ultrasound image, targeted a right liver
portion at least 6 cm thick and free of large vascular structures and 15 mm depth below the …

… the highest diagnostic performance for staging of liver fibrosis [5–7]. Over the past 5
decades, quantitative ultrasound (QUS) imaging techniques have been developed to analyze …

… good correlations with liver fibrosis staging and in … liver fibrosis. However, it requires a
dedicated machine, which is not compatible with clinical ultrasound scanners and lacks imaging …

… radiation force impulse imaging and 2-D SWE. … liver biopsy for the assessment of liver fibrosis
(n = 101) and magnetic resonance imaging/computed tomography for the diagnosis of liver …

… of numerous serum biomarkers and imaging tools as noninvasive alternatives to biopsy. …
generated by mechanically exciting liver tissue by ultrasound pushes have been introduced. …

… patients with chronic hepatitis C and advanced liver fibrosis, non-cirrhotic HBV carriers with
… , by ultrasound (with or without alpha-fetoprotein) every 6 months. The aim of ultrasound …

… , while the value of Gray Level Mean-Square Error becomes larger, and this is consistent
with the pathological features of liver fibrosis and visual sense of fibrosis ultrasound images. …

… Although there are numerous ways of diagnosing and quantifying liver fibrosis with
imaging tools, ultrasound methods remain the mainstay of current clinical practices. This is not …

… imaging techniques for evaluation of liver fibrosis exist, a description of pathogenesis of fibrosis,
regression of fibrosis… Conventional methods such as ultrasound, computed tomography (…