Liver fibrosis staging using CT image texture analysis and soft computing

- Liver fibrosis staging is an important problem in medical informatics.
- Currently, liver biopsy is the gold standard; however, it is invasive and expensive.
- We utilize image analysis (feature extraction and classification) on CT images.
- Automatic stage classification into 7 stages is a really challenging problem.
- Our non-invasive approach can be used in especially pairwise stage comparisons.