Quantitative assessment of liver fibrosis by digital image analysis reveals correlation with qualitative clinical fibrosis staging in liver transplant patients

• Kun Jiang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally as co-first author.

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Pathology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

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• Mohammad K. Mohammad ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally as co-first author.

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Wasim A. Dar,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-248X

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• Jun Kong,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Alton B. Farris

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: abfarri@emory.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5534-7763

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