Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes irreversible damage to kidney structure and function.
Arising from various etiologies, risk factors for CKD include hypertension and diabetes. With …

Prediction of kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) through kidney ultrasound
imaging has long been considered desirable in clinical practice because of its safety …

Ultrasound elastography (USE) is a noninvasive technique for assessing tissue elasticity,
and its application in nephrology has aroused growing interest in recent years. The purpose …

Background and objectives Diagnosis and early intervention of chronic kidney disease are
essential to prevent loss of kidney function and a large amount of financial resources. To this …

Background High ultrasound renal resistive index (RI) predicts poor cardiorenal outcomes in
chronic kidney disease (CKD) and has recently emerged as a marker of nephroprotective …

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to be 13.4% worldwide and
15% in the United States. CKD has been recognized as a leading public health problem …

In patients affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD), some ultrasonographic (US)
abnormalities have been shown to correlate better than others with the progression of the …

In this review of the most recent applications of deep learning to ultrasound imaging, the
architectures of deep learning networks are briefly explained for the medical imaging …

Renal imaging is widely used in the assessment of surrogate markers of nephron mass
correlated to renal function. Autopsy studies have tested the validity of various imaging …

The purpose of this study was to assess the potential of shear wave elastography (SWE) as
an indicator of abnormal kidney function defined by radiolabeled glomerular filtration rate …