Artificial Intelligence-Based Feature Analysis of Ultrasound Images of Liver Fibrosis.

Journal: Computational intelligence and neuroscience
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Abstract

Liver fibrosis is a common liver disease that seriously endangers human health. Liver biopsy is the gold standard for diagnosing liver fibrosis, but its clinical use is limited due to its invasive nature. Ultrasound image examination is a widely used liver fibrosis examination method. Clinicians can diagnose the severity of liver fibrosis according to their own experience by observing the roughness of the texture of the ultrasound image, and this method is highly subjective. Under the premise that artificial intelligence technology is widely used in medical image analysis, this paper uses convolutional neural network analysis to extract the characteristics of ultrasound images of liver fibrosis and then classify the degree of liver fibrosis. Using neural network for image classification can avoid the subjectivity of manual classification and improve the accuracy of judging the degree of liver fibrosis, so as to complete the prevention and treatment of liver fibrosis. Therefore, the following work is done in this paper: (1) the research background, research significance, research status at home and abroad, and the impact of the development of medical imaging on the diagnosis of liver fibrosis are introduced; (2) the related technologies of deep learning and deep convolutional network are introduced, and the indicators of liver fibrosis degree assessment are constructed by using ultrasonic image extraction features; (3) using the collected liver fibrosis dataset to conduct model evaluation experiments, four classic CNN models are selected to compare and analyze the recognition rate. The experiments show that the GoogLeNet model has the best classification and recognition effect.

Authors

  • Youcheng Xie
    Department of Gastroenterology, The 940 Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA, Lanzhou 730050, China.
  • Shun Chen
    Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  • Dong Jia
    Department of Gastroenterology, The 940 Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of PLA, Lanzhou 730050, China.
  • Bin Li
    Department of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
  • Ying Zheng
    Department of Ultrasound, Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100000, China. Electronic address: xl2264@126.com.
  • Xiaohui Yu
    Beijing Key Laboratory for Green Catalysis and Separation, Key Laboratory of Beijing on Regional Air Pollution Control, Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Education Ministry of China, Laboratory of Catalysis Chemistry and Nanoscience, Department of Environmental Chemical Engineering, School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.