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Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver

BACKGROUND: Artifacts are common when using two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2-D SWE) to measure liver stiffness (LS), but they are poorly recognized. AIM: To investigate the presence and influence of artifacts in 2-D SWE of liver. METHODS: We included 158 patients with chronic liver disease...

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Autores principales: Wang, Hui-Peng, Zheng, Peng-Chao, Wang, Xue-Mei, Sang, Liang
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10292141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37377588
http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v29.i21.3318
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author Wang, Hui-Peng
Zheng, Peng-Chao
Wang, Xue-Mei
Sang, Liang
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Zheng, Peng-Chao
Wang, Xue-Mei
Sang, Liang
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description BACKGROUND: Artifacts are common when using two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2-D SWE) to measure liver stiffness (LS), but they are poorly recognized. AIM: To investigate the presence and influence of artifacts in 2-D SWE of liver. METHODS: We included 158 patients with chronic liver disease, who underwent 2-D SWE examination by a novice and an expert. A cross line at the center of the elastogram was drawn and was divided it into four locations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The occurrence frequency of artifacts in different locations was compared. The influence of artifacts on the LS measurements was evaluated by comparing the elastogram with the most artifacts (EMA) and the elastogram with the least artifacts (ELA). RESULTS: The percentage of elastograms with artifacts in the novice (51.7%) was significantly higher than that of the expert (19.6%) (P < 0.001). It was found that both operators had the highest frequency of artifacts at bottom-left, followed by top-left and bottom-right, and top-right had the lowest frequency. The LS values (LSVs) and standard deviation values of EMAs were significantly higher than those of ELAs for both operators. An intraclass correlation coefficient value of 0.96 was found in the LSVs of EMAs of the two operators, and it increased to 0.98 when the LSVs of the ELAs were used. Both operators had lower stability index values for EMAs than ELAs, but the difference was only statistically significant for the novice. CONCLUSION: Artifacts are common when using 2-D SWE to measure LS, especially for the novice. Artifacts may lead to the overestimation of LS and reduce the repeatability and reliability of LS measurements.
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spelling pubmed-102921412023-06-27 Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver Wang, Hui-Peng Zheng, Peng-Chao Wang, Xue-Mei Sang, Liang World J Gastroenterol Observational Study BACKGROUND: Artifacts are common when using two-dimensional shear wave elastography (2-D SWE) to measure liver stiffness (LS), but they are poorly recognized. AIM: To investigate the presence and influence of artifacts in 2-D SWE of liver. METHODS: We included 158 patients with chronic liver disease, who underwent 2-D SWE examination by a novice and an expert. A cross line at the center of the elastogram was drawn and was divided it into four locations: top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right. The occurrence frequency of artifacts in different locations was compared. The influence of artifacts on the LS measurements was evaluated by comparing the elastogram with the most artifacts (EMA) and the elastogram with the least artifacts (ELA). RESULTS: The percentage of elastograms with artifacts in the novice (51.7%) was significantly higher than that of the expert (19.6%) (P < 0.001). It was found that both operators had the highest frequency of artifacts at bottom-left, followed by top-left and bottom-right, and top-right had the lowest frequency. The LS values (LSVs) and standard deviation values of EMAs were significantly higher than those of ELAs for both operators. An intraclass correlation coefficient value of 0.96 was found in the LSVs of EMAs of the two operators, and it increased to 0.98 when the LSVs of the ELAs were used. Both operators had lower stability index values for EMAs than ELAs, but the difference was only statistically significant for the novice. CONCLUSION: Artifacts are common when using 2-D SWE to measure LS, especially for the novice. Artifacts may lead to the overestimation of LS and reduce the repeatability and reliability of LS measurements. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023-06-07 2023-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10292141/ /pubmed/37377588 http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v29.i21.3318 Text en ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Wang, Hui-Peng
Zheng, Peng-Chao
Wang, Xue-Mei
Sang, Liang
Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title_full Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title_fullStr Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title_full_unstemmed Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title_short Artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
title_sort artifacts in two-dimensional shear wave elastography of liver
topic Observational Study
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10292141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37377588
http://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v29.i21.3318
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