Automated characterization of fatty liver disease and cirrhosis using curvelet transform and entropy features extracted from ultrasound images

• Main Authors: Acharya, U.R., Raghavendra, U., Fujita, H., Hagiwara, Y., Koh, J.E.W., Jen Hong, T., Sudarshan, V.K., Vijayananthan, A., Yeong, C.H., Gudigar, A., Ng, K.H.
• Format: Article
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: R Medicine; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18042/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.10.022

Fatty liver disease (FLD) is reversible disease and can be treated, if it is identified at an early stage. However, if diagnosed at the later stage, it can progress to an advanced liver disease such as cirrhosis which may ultimately lead to death. Therefore, it is essential to detect it at an early...