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dc.contributor.advisorFurenlid, Lars R.en
dc.contributor.authorBrand, Jonathan Frieman
dc.creatorBrand, Jonathan Friemanen
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-13T20:19:02Z
dc.date.available2016-06-13T20:19:02Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/612941
dc.description.abstractChronic liver disease is a worldwide health problem, and hepatic fibrosis (HF) is one of the hallmarks of the disease. Pathology diagnosis of HF is based on textural change in the liver as a lobular collagen network that develops within portal triads. The scale of collagen lobules is characteristically on order of 1mm, which close to the resolution limit of in vivo Gd-enhanced MRI. In this work the methods to collect training and testing images for a Hotelling observer are covered. An observer based on local texture analysis is trained and tested using wet-tissue phantoms. The technique is used to optimize the MRI sequence based on task performance. The final method developed is a two stage model observer to classify fibrotic and healthy tissue in both phantoms and in vivo MRI images. The first stage observer tests for the presence of local texture. Test statistics from the first observer are used to train the second stage observer to globally sample the local observer results. A decision of the disease class is made for an entire MRI image slice using test statistics collected from the second observer. The techniques are tested on wet-tissue phantoms and in vivo clinical patient data.
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en
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dc.subjecthepatic fibrosisen
dc.subjectHotelling observeren
dc.subjectmagnetic resonance imagingen
dc.subjectoptimazationen
dc.subjecttexture analysisen
dc.subjectOptical Sciencesen
dc.subjectclassificationen
dc.titleStaging Liver Fibrosis with Statistical Observersen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Dissertationen
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
dc.contributor.committeememberAltbach, Maria I.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKupinski, Matthew A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFurenlid, Lars R.en
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen
thesis.degree.disciplineOptical Sciencesen
thesis.degree.namePh.D.en
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-20T14:08:07Z
html.description.abstractChronic liver disease is a worldwide health problem, and hepatic fibrosis (HF) is one of the hallmarks of the disease. Pathology diagnosis of HF is based on textural change in the liver as a lobular collagen network that develops within portal triads. The scale of collagen lobules is characteristically on order of 1mm, which close to the resolution limit of in vivo Gd-enhanced MRI. In this work the methods to collect training and testing images for a Hotelling observer are covered. An observer based on local texture analysis is trained and tested using wet-tissue phantoms. The technique is used to optimize the MRI sequence based on task performance. The final method developed is a two stage model observer to classify fibrotic and healthy tissue in both phantoms and in vivo MRI images. The first stage observer tests for the presence of local texture. Test statistics from the first observer are used to train the second stage observer to globally sample the local observer results. A decision of the disease class is made for an entire MRI image slice using test statistics collected from the second observer. The techniques are tested on wet-tissue phantoms and in vivo clinical patient data.


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