Metrically measuring liver biopsy: A chronic hepatitis B and C computer-aided morphologic description

Table 1 Quantitative parameters automatically obtained with the Metriser

Parameter	min	max
Residual hepatocellular set
Residual hepatocellular set (%)	67.97	99.59
Inflammation
Inflammatory cell cluster space (%)	0	8.71
Pure inflammatory cell cluster space (%)	0	3.67
Extra-basin inflammatory space (%)	0	1.14
Fibrosis
Area of Sample covered by fibrosis (%)	0	32
Islets magnitude
10-103 (%)	8.9	100
103-104 (%)	0	58.15
> 104 (%)	0	87.4
Wrinkledness	0	1666
Tectonic Index
Liver tissue	0	0.78
Low or no disorder	0	0.4
Middle disorder	0.4	0.6
High disorder	0.6	1

Data are expressed as percentage of true liver surface. The value 0 is obtained when no cell clusters were recognized. Quantitative evaluation of steatosis. At this phase of the research this quantitative parameter is still obtained with an ad hoc software.