Quantitative Examination of Liver Tissue Ultrasound Elastograms

Methods of computer-aided statistical analysis of ultrasound elastograms are presented. An approach consisting in initial segmentation of elastograms visualizing low-elasticity segments distribution in the tissue of an examined biological organ and in statistical analysis of this distribution is described. Satisfactory correlation between the values of some statistics and medical specialists’ description of human liver elastograms was observed. The ways of continuation of the works aimed at improvement of the elastograms-based diagnostic methods are suggested.