Automated Characterization of Fatty Liver Disease and Cirrhosis Using Curvelet Transform and Entropy Features Extracted from Ultrasound Images

Fatty liver disease (FLD) is reversible disease and can be treated, if it is identified at an early stage. However, if diagnosed at the later stage, it can progress to an advanced liver disease such as cirrhosis which may ultimately lead to death. Therefore, it is essential to detect it at an early stage before the disease progresses to an irreversible stage. Several non-invasive computer-aided techniques are proposed to assist in the early detection of FLD and cirrhosis using ultrasound images.

Source: Computers in Biology and Medicine - October 27, 2016 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: U Rajendra Acharya, U Raghavendra, Hamido Fujita, Yuki Hagiwara, Joel EW Koh, Tan Jen Hong, Vidya K Sudarshan, Anushya Vijayananthan, Chai Hong Yeong, Anjan Gudigar, Kwan Hoong Ng Source Type: research