Quantification of Liver Fibrosis—A Comparative Study
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Abstract
Liver disease has been targeted as the fifth most common cause of death worldwide and tends to steadily rise. In the last three decades, several publications focused on the quantification of liver fibrosis by means of the estimation of the collagen proportional area (CPA) in liver biopsies obtained from digital image analysis (DIA). In this paper, early and recent studies on this topic have been reviewed according to these research aims: the datasets used for the analysis, the employed image processing techniques, the obtained results, and the derived conclusions. The purpose is to identify the major strengths and “gray-areas” in the landscape of this topic.
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OpenAlex topics: Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment · Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis · Liver physiology and pathology
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Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Ioannina, GR47100 Arta, Greece
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, GR50100 Kozani, Greece
Liver Unit/Division of Integrative Systems Medicine and Digestive Disease, Department of Surgery and 12 Cancer, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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