P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES

Conflict of interest: No Introduction and Objectives: Differents ultrasound (USD) signs have been described for the diagnosis of cirrhosis. Among them, the irregularity of the liver shape and the liver echostructure are the most specific and sensitive findings. The echostructure of the liver parench...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: DIEGO ARUFE, Pablo Gomez del Campo, Ezequiel Demirdjian, Carlos Galmarini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-12-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268124004654
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1850111846744326144
author DIEGO ARUFE
Pablo Gomez del Campo
Ezequiel Demirdjian
Carlos Galmarini
author_facet DIEGO ARUFE
Pablo Gomez del Campo
Ezequiel Demirdjian
Carlos Galmarini
author_sort DIEGO ARUFE
collection DOAJ
description Conflict of interest: No Introduction and Objectives: Differents ultrasound (USD) signs have been described for the diagnosis of cirrhosis. Among them, the irregularity of the liver shape and the liver echostructure are the most specific and sensitive findings. The echostructure of the liver parenchyma can be classified by the operator as smooth or coarse, the latter being suggestive of chronic liver disease. This classification is not free of subjectivity. The objective of our study was to diagnose cirrhosis by analyzing the liver echostructure through artificial inteligence (AI). We here propose LivGuard, a deep learning binary classifier for cirrhosis detection from a single ultrasound image from general and point-of-care pocket-handheld USD (POCUS). Patients / Materials and Methods: The dataset was composed of 1625 two-dimensional, ultrasound liver images annotated as cirrhotic (N=677) or not (N=948) captured from 165 individuals at Sanatorio Sagrado Corazon and Sanatorio de los Arcos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We stochastically split the master set into training (N=1297; 79.8%), validation (N=159; 9.7%), and test (N=169; 10.2%) sets that were completely disjointed. The output of the efficientNetv2 convolutional neural network (CNN) was a score between 0 and 1 to exhibit the probability of cirrhosis. Results and Discussion: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) System achieved accuracy in the test set of 88.7%. Sensitivity, specificity, positive (P) and negative (N) predictive values (PV) were 88.8%, 88.5%, 85.5% and 92.2%, respectively. The system was additionally evaluated in a test set of images (N=180; positive for cirrhosis=64) obtained through Butterfly POCUS. The AI system achieved an overall detection rate of 88.8%. Sensitivity, specificity, positive (P) and negative (N) predictive values (PV) were 100%, 82.7%, 76.1% and 100%, respectively. Conclusions: LivGuard is proven to be a high performer as cirrhosis classifier in ultrasound images. Further work is required to validate this algorithmic framework in prospective cohorts of patients in additional clinical trials and/or real-world datasets.
format Article
id doaj-art-80a2e1ca5abd4176a57ae9913631fb5f
institution OA Journals
issn 1665-2681
language English
publishDate 2024-12-01
publisher Elsevier
record_format Article
series Annals of Hepatology
spelling doaj-art-80a2e1ca5abd4176a57ae9913631fb5f2025-08-20T02:37:32ZengElsevierAnnals of Hepatology1665-26812024-12-012910168210.1016/j.aohep.2024.101682P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGESDIEGO ARUFE0Pablo Gomez del Campo1Ezequiel Demirdjian2Carlos Galmarini3SANATORIO SAGRADO CORAZON, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTOPAZIUM, Madrid, EspañaSANATORIO SAGRADO CORAZON, Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTOPAZIUM, Madrid, EspañaConflict of interest: No Introduction and Objectives: Differents ultrasound (USD) signs have been described for the diagnosis of cirrhosis. Among them, the irregularity of the liver shape and the liver echostructure are the most specific and sensitive findings. The echostructure of the liver parenchyma can be classified by the operator as smooth or coarse, the latter being suggestive of chronic liver disease. This classification is not free of subjectivity. The objective of our study was to diagnose cirrhosis by analyzing the liver echostructure through artificial inteligence (AI). We here propose LivGuard, a deep learning binary classifier for cirrhosis detection from a single ultrasound image from general and point-of-care pocket-handheld USD (POCUS). Patients / Materials and Methods: The dataset was composed of 1625 two-dimensional, ultrasound liver images annotated as cirrhotic (N=677) or not (N=948) captured from 165 individuals at Sanatorio Sagrado Corazon and Sanatorio de los Arcos, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We stochastically split the master set into training (N=1297; 79.8%), validation (N=159; 9.7%), and test (N=169; 10.2%) sets that were completely disjointed. The output of the efficientNetv2 convolutional neural network (CNN) was a score between 0 and 1 to exhibit the probability of cirrhosis. Results and Discussion: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) System achieved accuracy in the test set of 88.7%. Sensitivity, specificity, positive (P) and negative (N) predictive values (PV) were 88.8%, 88.5%, 85.5% and 92.2%, respectively. The system was additionally evaluated in a test set of images (N=180; positive for cirrhosis=64) obtained through Butterfly POCUS. The AI system achieved an overall detection rate of 88.8%. Sensitivity, specificity, positive (P) and negative (N) predictive values (PV) were 100%, 82.7%, 76.1% and 100%, respectively. Conclusions: LivGuard is proven to be a high performer as cirrhosis classifier in ultrasound images. Further work is required to validate this algorithmic framework in prospective cohorts of patients in additional clinical trials and/or real-world datasets.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268124004654
spellingShingle DIEGO ARUFE
Pablo Gomez del Campo
Ezequiel Demirdjian
Carlos Galmarini
P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
Annals of Hepatology
title P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
title_full P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
title_fullStr P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
title_full_unstemmed P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
title_short P-68 LIVGUARD, A DEEP NEURAL NETWORK FOR CIRRHOSIS DETECTION IN LIVER ULTRASOUND (USD) IMAGES
title_sort p 68 livguard a deep neural network for cirrhosis detection in liver ultrasound usd images
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268124004654
work_keys_str_mv AT diegoarufe p68livguardadeepneuralnetworkforcirrhosisdetectioninliverultrasoundusdimages
AT pablogomezdelcampo p68livguardadeepneuralnetworkforcirrhosisdetectioninliverultrasoundusdimages
AT ezequieldemirdjian p68livguardadeepneuralnetworkforcirrhosisdetectioninliverultrasoundusdimages
AT carlosgalmarini p68livguardadeepneuralnetworkforcirrhosisdetectioninliverultrasoundusdimages