Portal vein invasion of Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a well-known prognostic factor for patients after hepatic resection or liver transplant. Typical risk factors of microscopic venous infiltration (MVI) include large tumor size, multifocality, poor histological grade and non-smooth tumor margins. In this work, we adopt a new techniue for quantitative texture feature Gray-level-run-length nonuniformity (GLRLN) to predict MVI of HCC based on the contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance images (CE-MRI). The present study showed that the proposed texture feature GLRLN in the portal vein phase of CE-MRI yielded best performance as compared with typical markers for the prediction of MVI.
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