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Purpose: To establish shear-wave elastography (SWE) combined with contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) algorithm (SCCA) and improve the diagnostic performance in differentiating focal liver lesions (FLLs).
Material And Methods: We retrospectively selected patients with FLLs between January 2018 and December 2019 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University. Histopathology was used as a standard criterion except for hemangiomas and focal nodular hyperplasia. CEUS with SonoVue (Bracco Imaging) and SCCA combining CEUS and maximum value of elastography with < 20 kPa and > 90 kPa thresholds were used for the diagnosis of FLLs. The diagnostic performance of CEUS and SCCA was calculated and compared.
Results: A total of 171 FLLs were included, with 124 malignant FLLs and 47 benign FLLs. The area under curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity in detecting malignant FLLs were 0.83, 91.94%, and 74.47% for CEUS, respectively, and 0.89, 91.94%, and 85.11% for SCCA, respectively. The AUC of SCCA was significantly higher than that of CEUS (P = 0.019). Decision curves indicated that SCCA provided greater clinical benefits. The SCCA provided significantly improved prediction of clinical outcomes, with a net reclassification improvement index of 10.64% (P = 0.018) and integrated discrimination improvement of 0.106 (P = 0.019). For subgroup analysis, we divided the FLLs into a chronic-liver-disease group (n = 88 FLLs) and a normal-liver group (n = 83 FLLs) according to the liver background. In the chronic-liver-disease group, there were no differences between the CEUS-based and SCCA diagnoses. In the normal-liver group, the AUC of SCCA and CEUS in the characterization of FLLs were 0.89 and 0.83, respectively (P = 0.018).
Conclusion: SCCA is a feasible tool for differentiating FLLs in patients with normal liver backgrounds. Further investigations are necessary to validate the universality of this algorithm.
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