Fig 1.
Flowchart of patients enrolled in our study.
Table 1.
The patient characteristics of the study population.
Fig 2.
A 53-year-old male with chronic hepatitis B infection and pathologic fibrosis stage 3.
While the passive driver was on the right chest wall: (a) MR magnitude images provided anatomic information, (b) Wave images from the MRE acquisition at 60 Hz showing propagating shear waves, (c) Region-of-interest (white-dashed line) for liver stiffness measurement was drawn on an elastogram with confidence mapping. The liver stiffness was 3.17 kPa. While the passive driver was on the left chest wall: (d) MR magnitude images provided anatomic information, (e) Wave images from the MRE acquisition at 60 Hz showing propagating shear waves, (f) Region-of-interest (white-dashed line) for spleen stiffness measurement was drawn on an elastogram with confidence mapping. The spleen stiffness was 6.63 kPa.
Table 2.
The liver stiffness and spleen stiffness values at each fibrosis stage.
Fig 3.
Scatterplot with jittered points illustrating the relationship between liver/spleen stiffness, splenic volume and fibrosis stage.
Table 3.
Correlation coefficients between liver/spleen stiffness, splenic volume and fibrosis stage.
Fig 4.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve for predicting advanced liver fibrosis (F3-F4).
Table 4.
The statistical results of spleen stiffness, spleen volume, liver stiffness and the combination of spleen stiffness and liver stiffness for predicting advanced liver fibrosis (F3-F4).