Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices

AIMS: Texture analysis (TA) is becoming an increasingly used tool in radiological research. Some papers have been published on its use in ultrasound (US), but the way in which the machine settings affect the features has not yet been fully explored. With this research, we analyze how the time gain c...

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Autores principales: Vara, Giulio, Rustici, Arianna, Sechi, Andrea, Mosconi, Cristina, Lucidi, Vincenzo, Golfieri, Rita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33953501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmp.JMP_82_20
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author Vara, Giulio
Rustici, Arianna
Sechi, Andrea
Mosconi, Cristina
Lucidi, Vincenzo
Golfieri, Rita
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Rustici, Arianna
Sechi, Andrea
Mosconi, Cristina
Lucidi, Vincenzo
Golfieri, Rita
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description AIMS: Texture analysis (TA) is becoming an increasingly used tool in radiological research. Some papers have been published on its use in ultrasound (US), but the way in which the machine settings affect the features has not yet been fully explored. With this research, we analyze how the time gain compensation (TGC) influences the features of the gray-level matrices in the abdominal US setting. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We analyzed the images acquired from the hepatorenal acoustic window of a healthy 29-year-old volunteer acquired with different TGC settings. TA was carried out using the LifeX software. RESULTS: Several both 1(st) and 2(nd) order gray-level matrices features showed a strong correlation with TGC settings. CONCLUSIONS: TGC settings must be accounted for when carrying out further TA studies.
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spelling pubmed-80747152021-05-04 Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices Vara, Giulio Rustici, Arianna Sechi, Andrea Mosconi, Cristina Lucidi, Vincenzo Golfieri, Rita J Med Phys Original Article AIMS: Texture analysis (TA) is becoming an increasingly used tool in radiological research. Some papers have been published on its use in ultrasound (US), but the way in which the machine settings affect the features has not yet been fully explored. With this research, we analyze how the time gain compensation (TGC) influences the features of the gray-level matrices in the abdominal US setting. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: We analyzed the images acquired from the hepatorenal acoustic window of a healthy 29-year-old volunteer acquired with different TGC settings. TA was carried out using the LifeX software. RESULTS: Several both 1(st) and 2(nd) order gray-level matrices features showed a strong correlation with TGC settings. CONCLUSIONS: TGC settings must be accounted for when carrying out further TA studies. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2021-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8074715/ /pubmed/33953501 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmp.JMP_82_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Medical Physics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Vara, Giulio
Rustici, Arianna
Sechi, Andrea
Mosconi, Cristina
Lucidi, Vincenzo
Golfieri, Rita
Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title_full Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title_fullStr Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title_full_unstemmed Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title_short Texture Analysis on Ultrasound: The Effect of Time Gain Compensation on Histogram Metrics and Gray-Level Matrices
title_sort texture analysis on ultrasound: the effect of time gain compensation on histogram metrics and gray-level matrices
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33953501
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmp.JMP_82_20
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