Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence-Calculated Hepatorenal Index for Diagnosing Mild and Moderate Hepatic Steatosis in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Background and Objectives: This study aims to evaluate artificial intelligence-calculated hepatorenal index (AI-HRI) as a diagnostic method for hepatic steatosis. Materials and Methods: We prospectively enrolled 102 patients with clinically suspected non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). All patients had a quantitative ultrasound (QUS), including AI-HRI, ultrasound attenuation coefficient (AC,) and ultrasound backscatter-distribution coefficient (SC) measurements. The ultrasonographic fatty liver indicator (US-FLI) score was also calculated. The magnetic resonance imaging fat fraction (MRI-PDFF) was the reference to classify patients into four grades of steatosis: none < 5%, mild 5-10%, moderate 10-20%, and severe ≥ 20%. We compared AI-HRI between steatosis grades and calculated Spearman's correlation (rs) between the methods. We determined the agreement between AI-HRI by two examiners using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) of 68 cases. We performed a receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analysis to estimate the area under the curve (AUC) for AI-HRI. Results: The mean AI-HRI was 2.27 (standard deviation, ±0.96) in the patient cohort. The AI-HRI was significantly different between groups without (1.480 ± 0.607, p < 0.003) and with mild steatosis (2.155 ± 0.776), as well as between mild and moderate steatosis (2.777 ± 0.923, p < 0.018). AI-HRI showed moderate correlation with AC (rs = 0.597), SC (rs = 0.473), US-FLI (rs = 0.5), and MRI-PDFF (rs = 0.528). The agreement in AI-HRI was good between the two examiners (ICC = 0.635, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.411-0.774, p < 0.001). The AI-HRI could detect mild steatosis (AUC = 0.758, 95% CI = 0.621-0.894) with fair and moderate/severe steatosis (AUC = 0.803, 95% CI = 0.721-0.885) with good accuracy. However, the performance of AI-HRI was not significantly different (p < 0.578) between the two diagnostic tasks. Conclusions: AI-HRI is an easy-to-use, reproducible, and accurate QUS method for diagnosing mild and moderate hepatic steatosis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:59

Enthalten in:

Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) - 59(2023), 3 vom: 27. Feb.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zsombor, Zita [VerfasserIn]
Rónaszéki, Aladár D [VerfasserIn]
Csongrády, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Stollmayer, Róbert [VerfasserIn]
Budai, Bettina K [VerfasserIn]
Folhoffer, Anikó [VerfasserIn]
Kalina, Ildikó [VerfasserIn]
Győri, Gabriella [VerfasserIn]
Bérczi, Viktor [VerfasserIn]
Maurovich-Horvat, Pál [VerfasserIn]
Hagymási, Krisztina [VerfasserIn]
Kaposi, Pál Novák [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Artificial intelligence
Hepatorenal index
Journal Article
Liver
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Ultrasound

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Date Completed 30.03.2023

Date Revised 31.03.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/medicina59030469

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM35489434X