Variation in textural parameters of hepatic lesions during contrast medium injection
Background Textural parameters extracted using quantitative imaging techniques have been shown to have prognostic value for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Purpose To evaluate whether the contrast medium timing of the image acquisition affects the reproducibility of textural parameters in HCC and he...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Acta radiologica (1987) 2021-10, Vol.62 (10), p.1317-1323 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background
Textural parameters extracted using quantitative imaging techniques have been shown to have prognostic value for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Purpose
To evaluate whether the contrast medium timing of the image acquisition affects the reproducibility of textural parameters in HCC and hepatic tissue.
Material and Methods
This retrospective study included 17 patients with 37 HCC lesions. Perfusion computed tomography (CT) was obtained after 50 mL contrast medium injection. HCC lesions were segmented for analysis. The gray-level co-occurrence (GLCM) textural analysis parameters, homogeneity, energy, entropy, inertia, and correlation were calculated. Variation was quantified by calculating the SD of each parameter during respective perfusion series and the inter lesion variation as the SD among the lesions.
Results
The average change in texture parameters in both HCC and hepatic tissue per second after injection was 0.01% to 0.3% of the respective texture parameter. In HCC, the average variation in homogeneity, energy, and entropy within each lesion after contrast medium injection was significantly less than the variation observed among the lesions (23% to 74%, P |
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ISSN: | 0284-1851 1600-0455 1600-0455 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0284185120964904 |