Automated detection and classification of liver fibrosis stages using contourlet transform and nonlinear features
Background and objective: Liver fibrosis is a type of chronic liver injury that is characterized by an excessive deposition of extracellular matrix protein. Early detection of liver fibrosis may prevent further growth toward liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. In the past, the only method...
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Elsevier
2018
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