Identifying Signatures of Image Phenotypes to Track Treatment Response in Liver Disease
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| author | Perkonigg, Matthias Bastati, Nina Ba-Ssalamah, Ahmed Mesenbrink, Peter Goehler, Alexander Martic, Miljen Zhou, Xiaofei Trauner, Michael Langs, Georg |
| author_facet | Perkonigg, Matthias Bastati, Nina Ba-Ssalamah, Ahmed Mesenbrink, Peter Goehler, Alexander Martic, Miljen Zhou, Xiaofei Trauner, Michael Langs, Georg |
| contents | Quantifiable image patterns associated with disease progression and treatment response are critical tools for guiding individual treatment, and for developing novel therapies. Here, we show that unsupervised machine learning can identify a pattern vocabulary of liver tissue in magnetic resonance images that quantifies treatment response in diffuse liver disease. Deep clustering networks simultaneously encode and cluster patches of medical images into a low-dimensional latent space to establish a tissue vocabulary. The resulting tissue types capture differential tissue change and its location in the liver associated with treatment response. We demonstrate the utility of the vocabulary on a randomized controlled trial cohort of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients. First, we use the vocabulary to compare longitudinal liver change in a placebo and a treatment cohort. Results show that the method identifies specific liver tissue change pathways associated with treatment, and enables a better separation between treatment groups than established non-imaging measures. Moreover, we show that the vocabulary can predict biopsy derived features from non-invasive imaging data. We validate the method on a separate replication cohort to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. |
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| spellingShingle | Identifying Signatures of Image Phenotypes to Track Treatment Response in Liver Disease Perkonigg, Matthias Bastati, Nina Ba-Ssalamah, Ahmed Mesenbrink, Peter Goehler, Alexander Martic, Miljen Zhou, Xiaofei Trauner, Michael Langs, Georg Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Quantifiable image patterns associated with disease progression and treatment response are critical tools for guiding individual treatment, and for developing novel therapies. Here, we show that unsupervised machine learning can identify a pattern vocabulary of liver tissue in magnetic resonance images that quantifies treatment response in diffuse liver disease. Deep clustering networks simultaneously encode and cluster patches of medical images into a low-dimensional latent space to establish a tissue vocabulary. The resulting tissue types capture differential tissue change and its location in the liver associated with treatment response. We demonstrate the utility of the vocabulary on a randomized controlled trial cohort of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis patients. First, we use the vocabulary to compare longitudinal liver change in a placebo and a treatment cohort. Results show that the method identifies specific liver tissue change pathways associated with treatment, and enables a better separation between treatment groups than established non-imaging measures. Moreover, we show that the vocabulary can predict biopsy derived features from non-invasive imaging data. We validate the method on a separate replication cohort to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. |
| title | Identifying Signatures of Image Phenotypes to Track Treatment Response in Liver Disease |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12012 |