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Radiogenomics of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma predicts immunochemotherapy response and identifies therapeutic target
Gu-Wei Ji, Zheng-Gang Xu, Shuo-Chen Liu, Shu-Ya Cao, Chen-Yu Jiao, Ming Lu, Biao Zhang, Yue Yang, Qing Xu, Xiao-Feng Wu, Ke Wang, Yong-Xiang Xia, Xiang-Cheng Li, Xue-Hao Wang
Clin Mol Hepatol 2025;31(3):935-959.
Published online February 10, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0895
Background/Aims
Identifying patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) likely to benefit from immunochemotherapy, the new front-line treatment, remains challenging. We aimed to unveil a novel radiotranscriptomic signature that can facilitate treatment response prediction by multi-omics integration and multiscale modelling.
Methods
We analyzed bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomic data comprising 457 ICC patients to identify an immune-related score (IRS), followed by decoding its spatial immune context. We mapped radiomics profiles onto spatial-specific IRS using machine learning to define a novel radiotranscriptomic signature, followed by multi-scale and multi-cohort validation covering 331 ICC patients. The signature was further explored for the potential therapeutic target from in vitro to in vivo.
Results
We revealed a novel 3-gene (PLAUR, CD40LG, and FGFR4) IRS whose down-regulation correlated with better survival and improved sensitivity to immunochemotherapy. We highlighted functional IRS-immune interactions within tumor epithelium, rather than stromal compartment, irrespective of geospatial locations. Machine learning pipeline identified the optimal 3-feature radiotranscriptomic signature that was well-validated by immunohistochemical assays in molecular cohort, exhibited favorable external prognostic validity with C-index over 0.64 in resection cohort, and predicted treatment response with an area under the curve of up to 0.84 in immunochemotherapy cohort. We also showed that anti-uPAR/PLAUR alone or in combination with anti-programmed cell death protein 1 therapy remarkably curbed tumor growth, using in vitro ICC cell lines and in vivo humanized ICC patient-derived xenograft mouse models.
Conclusions
This proof-of-concept study sheds light on the spatially-resolved radiotranscriptomic signature to improve patient selection for emerging immunochemotherapy and high-order immunotherapy combinations in ICC.

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  • Immunotherapy impact of macrophage glycosylation on cholangiocarcinoma and its prognostic and immune microenvironment significance
    Yufen Xu, Xiaofang Xu, Yan Xu, Jianwen Duan
    Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics.2026;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Bioinformatics analysis of PLAUR and its oncogenic role of promoting colorectal cancer progression through the AKT/p53 signaling
    You Chen, Rui Ma, Chuyue Wang, Zhiying Yang, Ying Shi, Yingying Zhao, Xiaofen Pan, Bo Wang, Weili Wu, Ping Yuan
    Experimental Cell Research.2026; 455(2): 114850.     CrossRef
  • Letter to the editor on “Radiogenomics of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma predicts immunochemotherapy response and identifies therapeutic target”
    Yuqian Liu, Ruiyun Guo, Jun Ma
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2026; 32(1): e13.     CrossRef
  • How to efficiently establish animal models of cholangiocarcinoma: challenges and inspiration
    Ruiqiang Gou, Ping Yue, Peng Liu, Jinyu Zhao, Chunfei Huang, Kiyohito Tanaka, Peng F Wong, Rungsun Rerknimitr, Jong H Moon, Tan T Cheung, Christian Waydhas, Azumi Suzuki, Yanyan Lin, Emmanuel Melloul, Hans Schlitt, John Fung, Joseph W Leung, Wenbo Meng
    Medical Review.2026;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Integrating single-cell atlases and machine learning to construct ‘in silico patients’ for predicting individualized drug responses
    Zhuo Zuo, Yulong Sun
    Biochemical Pharmacology.2026; 248: 117873.     CrossRef
  • AI-Driven Drug Discovery: Focus on Targets for Solid Tumors
    Jialong Wu, Jide He, Qianyang Ni, Zi’ang Li, Xiushi Lin, Zhenkun Zhao, Lei Qiu, Hongyin Wang, Sijie Li, Chengdong Shi, Yunyi Zhang, Huile Gao, Jian Lu
    Pharmaceutics.2026; 18(3): 329.     CrossRef
  • Multifacet Roles of Cellular Senescence in Cancer: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Implications
    Huajie Mao, Wanning Liu, Yuanyuan Su, Yuxuan Ma, Xiaodi Zhao, Yuanyuan Lu
    MedComm – Oncology.2026;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Biliary tract cancer treatment: Emerging trends and further prospects
    Qinqin Liu, Honghua Zhang, Li Pang, Xinjian Xu, Chao Liu
    Chinese Medical Journal BioMed.2026; : 1.     CrossRef
  • Characterization of hypoxia-related molecular clusters and prognostic riskScore for glioma
    Xiang Fang, Xinhao Wu, Chengran Xu
    Frontiers in Oncology.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis and prognosis of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: Applications and challenges
    Liang Qiao, Yu-Gang Luo, Qing-Ying Wang, Tian Yuan, Meng Xu, Guang-Bing Xiong, Feng Zhu
    World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
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Fibrosis-4plus score: a novel machine learning-based tool for screening high-risk varices in compensated cirrhosis (CHESS2004): an international multicenter study
Bingtian Dong, Ruiling He, Shenghong Ju, Yuping Chen, Ivica Grgurevic, Jianzhong Ma, Ying Guo, Huizhen Fan, Qiang Yan, Chuan Liu, Huixiong Xu, Anita Madir, Kristian Podrug, Jia Wang, Linxue Qian, Zhengzi Geng, Shanghao Liu, Tao Ren, Guo Zhang, Kun Wang, Meiqin Su, Fei Chen, Sumei Ma, Liting Zhang, Zhaowei Tong, Yonghe Zhou, Xin Li, Fanbin He, Hui Huan, Wenjuan Wang, Yunxiao Liang, Juan Tang, Fang Ai, Tingyu Wang, Liyun Zheng, Zhongwei Zhao, Jiansong Ji, Wei Liu, Jiaojiao Xu, Bo Liu, Xuemei Wang, Yao Zhang, Qiong Yan, Hui Liu, Xiaomei Chen, Shuhua Zhang, Yihua Wang, Yang Liu, Li Yin, Yanni Liu, Yanqing Huang, Li Bian, Ping An, Xin Zhang, Shaoting Zhang, Jinhua Shao, Xiangman Zhang, Wei Rao, Chaoxue Zhang, Christoph Frank Dietrich, Won Kim, Xiaolong Qi
Clin Mol Hepatol 2025;31(3):881-898.
Published online February 5, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0898
Background/Aims
A large percentage of patients undergoing esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) screening do not have esophageal varices (EV) or have only small EV. We evaluated a large, international, multicenter cohort to develop a novel score, termed FIB-4plus, by combining the fibrosis-4 (FIB-4) score, liver stiffness measurement (LSM), and spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) to identify high-risk EV (HRV) in compensated cirrhosis.
Methods
This international cohort study involved patients with compensated cirrhosis from 17 Chinese hospitals and one Croatian institution (NCT04546360). Two-dimensional shear wave elastography-derived LSM and SSM values, and components of the FIB-4 score (i.e., age, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and platelet count [PLT]) were combined using machine learning algorithms (logistic regression [LR] and extreme gradient boosting [XGBoost]) to develop the LR-FIB-4plus and XGBoost-FIB-4plus models, respectively. Shapley Additive exPlanations method was used to interpret the model predictions.
Results
We analyzed data from 502 patients with compensated cirrhosis who underwent EGD screening. The XGBoost-FIB-4plus score demonstrated superior predictive performance for HRV, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.927 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.897–0.957) in the training cohort (n=268), and 0.919 (95% CI 0.843–0.995) and 0.902 (95% CI 0.820–0.984) in the first (n=118) and second (n=82) external validation cohorts, respectively. Additionally, the XGBoost-FIB-4plus score exhibited high AUROC values for predicting EV across all cohorts. The FIB-4plus score outperformed the individual parameters (LSM, SSM, PLT, and FIB-4).
Conclusions
The FIB-4plus score effectively predicted EV and HRV in patients with compensated cirrhosis, providing clinicians with a valuable tool for optimizing patient management and outcomes.

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    Haiyu Wang, Jinjun Chen
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2026; 32(1): 403.     CrossRef
  • Metabolic factor-based machine learning model for mortality prediction in acute hepatitis E: Development and validation from a dual-center cohort
    Haoshuang Fu, Shuying Song, Yuelin Xiao, Bingying Du, Gangde Zhao, Tianhui Zhou, Yanan Du
    Digestive and Liver Disease.2026;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Relative change rate of liver stiffness measurements predicts the risk of liver decompensation in compensated advanced chronic liver disease
    Yanqiu Li, Zihang Qiao, Jinze Li, Bingbing Zhu, Yu Lu, Ying Feng, Xianbo Wang
    Clinical and Experimental Medicine.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Diagnosis and Management of Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension: A Narrative Review
    Amrit Khooblall, Satish E. Viswanath, Layth Khawaja, Sameer Gadani
    Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology.2025; 28(4): 101078.     CrossRef
  • Liver stiffness measurement-based risk score for predicting liver decompensation risk: a single-center retrospective Chinese study
    Yanqiu Li, Zihang Qiao, Jinze Li, Yongqi Li, Ying Feng, Xianbo Wang
    Clinical and Experimental Medicine.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
  • Metabolomics and metabolites in cancer diagnosis and treatment
    Minyi Cai, Haiyan Liu, Chen Shao, Tingting Li, Jun Jin, Yahui Liang, Jinhu Wang, Ji Cao, Bo Yang, Qiaojun He, Xuejing Shao, Meidan Ying
    Molecular Biomedicine.2025;[Epub]     CrossRef
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Hepatic neoplasm

Exploring methylation signatures for high de novo recurrence risk in hepatocellular carcinoma
Da-Won Kim, Jin Hyun Park, Suk Kyun Hong, Min-Hyeok Jung, Ji-One Pyeon, Jin-Young Lee, Kyung-Suk Suh, Nam-Joon Yi, YoungRok Choi, Kwang-Woong Lee, Young-Joon Kim
Clin Mol Hepatol 2025;31(2):563-576.
Published online January 13, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0899
Background/Aims
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exhibits high de novo recurrence rates post-resection. Current post-surgery recurrence prediction methods are limited, emphasizing the need for reliable biomarkers to assess recurrence risk. We aimed to develop methylation-based markers for classifying HCC patients and predicting their risk of de novo recurrence post-surgery.
Methods
In this retrospective cohort study, we analyzed data from HCC patients who underwent surgical resection in Korea, excluding those with recurrence within one year post-surgery. Using the Infinium Methylation EPIC array on 140 samples in the discovery cohort, we classified patients into low- and high-risk groups based on methylation profiles. Distinctive markers were identified through random forest analysis. These markers were validated in the cancer genome atlas (n=217), Validation cohort 1 (n=63) and experimental Validation using a methylation-sensitive high-resolution melting (MS-HRM) assay in Validation cohort 1 and Validation cohort 2 (n=63).
Results
The low-risk recurrence group (methylation group 1; MG1) showed a methylation average of 0.73 (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.69–0.77) with a 23.5% recurrence rate, while the high-risk group (MG2) had an average of 0.17 (95% CI 0.14–0.20) with a 44.1% recurrence rate (P<0.03). Validation confirmed the applicability of methylation markers across diverse populations, showing high accuracy in predicting the probability of HCC recurrence risk (area under the curve 96.8%). The MS-HRM assay confirmed its effectiveness in predicting de novo recurrence with 95.5% sensitivity, 89.7% specificity, and 92.2% accuracy.
Conclusions
Methylation markers effectively classified HCC patients by de novo recurrence risk, enhancing prediction accuracy and potentially offering personalized management strategies.
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Correspondence

Hepatic neoplasm

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Letter to the Editor

Hepatic neoplasm

Insights on risk score development: Considerations for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma models
Zhanna Zhang, Gongqiang Wu
Clin Mol Hepatol 2025;31(1):e8-e9.
Published online November 6, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0958

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  • Correspondence to letter to the editor 1 on “Conventional and machine learning-based risk scores for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma”
    Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Chien-Wei Su
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2025; 31(1): e96.     CrossRef
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Correspondence

Hepatic neoplasm

Correspondence to editorial on “Conventional and machine learning-based risk scores for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma”
Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Chien-Wei Su
Clin Mol Hepatol 2024;30(4):1016-1018.
Published online May 20, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0365

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  • Correspondence to letter to the editor 1 on “Conventional and machine learning-based risk scores for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma”
    Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Chien-Wei Su
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2025; 31(1): e96.     CrossRef
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Editorial

Hepatic neoplasm

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    Fanzhi Meng, Wei Xu, Yanan Qian, Feng Sun, Bing Sun, Zhe Yang
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    Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Chien-Wei Su
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2025; 31(1): e101.     CrossRef
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    Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Chien-Wei Su
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2024; 30(4): 1016.     CrossRef
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Original Article

Hepatic neoplasm

Conventional and machine learning-based risk scores for patients with early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma
Chun-Ting Ho, Elise Chia-Hui Tan, Pei-Chang Lee, Chi-Jen Chu, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Teh-Ia Huo, Yu-Hui Su, Ming-Chih Hou, Jaw-Ching Wu, Chien-Wei Su
Clin Mol Hepatol 2024;30(3):406-420.
Published online April 11, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0103
Background/Aims
The performance of machine learning (ML) in predicting the outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains uncertain. We aimed to develop risk scores using conventional methods and ML to categorize early-stage HCC patients into distinct prognostic groups.
Methods
The study retrospectively enrolled 1,411 consecutive treatment-naïve patients with the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage 0 to A HCC from 2012 to 2021. The patients were randomly divided into a training cohort (n=988) and validation cohort (n=423). Two risk scores (CATS-IF and CATS-INF) were developed to predict overall survival (OS) in the training cohort using the conventional methods (Cox proportional hazards model) and ML-based methods (LASSO Cox regression), respectively. They were then validated and compared in the validation cohort.
Results
In the training cohort, factors for the CATS-IF score were selected by the conventional method, including age, curative treatment, single large HCC, serum creatinine and alpha-fetoprotein levels, fibrosis-4 score, lymphocyte-tomonocyte ratio, and albumin-bilirubin grade. The CATS-INF score, determined by ML-based methods, included the above factors and two additional ones (aspartate aminotransferase and prognostic nutritional index). In the validation cohort, both CATS-IF score and CATS-INF score outperformed other modern prognostic scores in predicting OS, with the CATSINF score having the lowest Akaike information criterion value. A calibration plot exhibited good correlation between predicted and observed outcomes for both scores.
Conclusions
Both the conventional Cox-based CATS-IF score and ML-based CATS-INF score effectively stratified patients with early-stage HCC into distinct prognostic groups, with the CATS-INF score showing slightly superior performance.

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Editorial

Viral hepatitis

Toward hepatitis C virus elimination using artificial intelligence
Moon Haeng Hur, Jeong-Hoon Lee
Clin Mol Hepatol 2024;30(2):147-149.
Published online February 23, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2024.0135

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Original Articles

Steatotic liver disease

Identification of signature gene set as highly accurate determination of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease progression
Sumin Oh, Yang-Hyun Baek, Sungju Jung, Sumin Yoon, Byeonggeun Kang, Su-hyang Han, Gaeul Park, Je Yeong Ko, Sang-Young Han, Jin-Sook Jeong, Jin-Han Cho, Young-Hoon Roh, Sung-Wook Lee, Gi-Bok Choi, Yong Sun Lee, Won Kim, Rho Hyun Seong, Jong Hoon Park, Yeon-Su Lee, Kyung Hyun Yoo
Clin Mol Hepatol 2024;30(2):247-262.
Published online January 26, 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2023.0449
Background/Aims
Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is characterized by fat accumulation in the liver. MASLD encompasses both steatosis and MASH. Since MASH can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer, steatosis and MASH must be distinguished during patient treatment. Here, we investigate the genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes of MASLD patients to identify signature gene set for more accurate tracking of MASLD progression.
Methods
Biopsy-tissue and blood samples from patients with 134 MASLD, comprising 60 steatosis and 74 MASH patients were performed omics analysis. SVM learning algorithm were used to calculate most predictive features. Linear regression was applied to find signature gene set that distinguish the stage of MASLD and to validate their application into independent cohort of MASLD.
Results
After performing WGS, WES, WGBS, and total RNA-seq on 134 biopsy samples from confirmed MASLD patients, we provided 1,955 MASLD-associated features, out of 3,176 somatic variant callings, 58 DMRs, and 1,393 DEGs that track MASLD progression. Then, we used a SVM learning algorithm to analyze the data and select the most predictive features. Using linear regression, we identified a signature gene set capable of differentiating the various stages of MASLD and verified it in different independent cohorts of MASLD and a liver cancer cohort.
Conclusions
We identified a signature gene set (i.e., CAPG, HYAL3, WIPI1, TREM2, SPP1, and RNASE6) with strong potential as a panel of diagnostic genes of MASLD-associated disease.

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    Haili Wang, Zhenqiu Liu, Hong Fan, Chengnan Guo, Xin Zhang, Yi Li, Suzhen Zhao, Luojia Dai, Ming Zhao, Tiejun Zhang
    Journal of Gastroenterology.2025; 60(3): 306.     CrossRef
  • Correspondence to editorial on “DNA methylome analysis reveals epigenetic alteration of complement genes in advanced metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease”
    Amal Magdy, Hee-Jin Kim, Won Kim, Mirang Kim
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2025; 31(1): e70.     CrossRef
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    Baokai Sun, Likun Zhuang
    Clinical and Molecular Hepatology.2025; 31(1): e67.     CrossRef
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    Iván López-Méndez, Eva Juárez-Hernández, Juan Pablo Soriano-Márquez, Misael Uribe, Graciela Castro-Narro
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Viral hepatitis

Artificial intelligence predicts direct-acting antivirals failure among hepatitis C virus patients: A nationwide hepatitis C virus registry program
Ming-Ying Lu, Chung-Feng Huang, Chao-Hung Hung, Chi‐Ming Tai, Lein-Ray Mo, Hsing-Tao Kuo, Kuo-Chih Tseng, Ching-Chu Lo, Ming-Jong Bair, Szu-Jen Wang, Jee-Fu Huang, Ming-Lun Yeh, Chun-Ting Chen, Ming-Chang Tsai, Chien-Wei Huang, Pei-Lun Lee, Tzeng-Hue Yang, Yi-Hsiang Huang, Lee-Won Chong, Chien-Lin Chen, Chi-Chieh Yang, Sheng‐Shun Yang, Pin-Nan Cheng, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh, Jui-Ting Hu, Wen-Chih Wu, Chien-Yu Cheng, Guei-Ying Chen, Guo-Xiong Zhou, Wei-Lun Tsai, Chien-Neng Kao, Chih-Lang Lin, Chia-Chi Wang, Ta-Ya Lin, Chih‐Lin Lin, Wei-Wen Su, Tzong-Hsi Lee, Te-Sheng Chang, Chun-Jen Liu, Chia-Yen Dai, Jia-Horng Kao, Han-Chieh Lin, Wan-Long Chuang, Cheng-Yuan Peng, Chun-Wei- Tsai, Chi-Yi Chen, Ming-Lung Yu, TACR Study Group
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Background/Aims
Despite the high efficacy of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), approximately 1–3% of hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients fail to achieve a sustained virological response. We conducted a nationwide study to investigate risk factors associated with DAA treatment failure. Machine-learning algorithms have been applied to discriminate subjects who may fail to respond to DAA therapy.
Methods
We analyzed the Taiwan HCV Registry Program database to explore predictors of DAA failure in HCV patients. Fifty-five host and virological features were assessed using multivariate logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and artificial neural network. The primary outcome was undetectable HCV RNA at 12 weeks after the end of treatment.
Results
The training (n=23,955) and validation (n=10,346) datasets had similar baseline demographics, with an overall DAA failure rate of 1.6% (n=538). Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that liver cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, poor DAA adherence, and higher hemoglobin A1c were significantly associated with virological failure. XGBoost outperformed the other algorithms and logistic regression models, with an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 1.000 in the training dataset and 0.803 in the validation dataset. The top five predictors of treatment failure were HCV RNA, body mass index, α-fetoprotein, platelets, and FIB-4 index. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the XGBoost model (cutoff value=0.5) were 99.5%, 69.7%, 99.9%, 97.4%, and 99.5%, respectively, for the entire dataset.
Conclusions
Machine learning algorithms effectively provide risk stratification for DAA failure and additional information on the factors associated with DAA failure.

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Steatotic liver disease

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Clin Mol Hepatol 2023;29(Suppl):S171-S183.
Published online December 12, 2022
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Inflammation is the key driver of liver fibrosis progression in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Unfortunately, it is often challenging to assess inflammation in NAFLD due to its dynamic nature and poor correlation with liver biochemical markers. Liver histology keeps its role as the standard tool, yet it is well-known for substantial sampling, intraobserver, and interobserver variability. Serum proinflammatory cytokines and apoptotic markers, namely cytokeratin-18, are well-studied with reasonable accuracy, whereas serum metabolomics and lipidomics have been adopted in some commercially available diagnostic models. Ultrasound and computed tomography imaging techniques are attractive due to their wide availability; yet their accuracies may not be comparable with magnetic resonance imaging-based tools. Machine learning and deep learning models, be they supervised or unsupervised learning, are promising tools to identify various subtypes of NAFLD, including those with dominating liver inflammation, contributing to sustainable care pathways for NAFLD.

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Original Article

Steatotic liver disease

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and early prediction of gestational diabetes mellitus using machine learning methods
Seung Mi Lee, Suhyun Hwangbo, Errol R. Norwitz, Ja Nam Koo, Ig Hwan Oh, Eun Saem Choi, Young Mi Jung, Sun Min Kim, Byoung Jae Kim, Sang Youn Kim, Gyoung Min Kim, Won Kim, Sae Kyung Joo, Sue Shin, Chan-Wook Park, Taesung Park, Joong Shin Park
Clin Mol Hepatol 2022;28(1):105-116.
Published online October 15, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3350/cmh.2021.0174
Background/Aims
To develop an early prediction model for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) using machine learning and to evaluate whether the inclusion of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-associated variables increases the performance of model.
Methods
This prospective cohort study evaluated pregnant women for NAFLD using ultrasound at 10–14 weeks and screened them for GDM at 24–28 weeks of gestation. The clinical variables before 14 weeks were used to develop prediction models for GDM (setting 1, conventional risk factors; setting 2, addition of new risk factors in recent guidelines; setting 3, addition of routine clinical variables; setting 4, addition of NALFD-associated variables, including the presence of NAFLD and laboratory results; and setting 5, top 11 variables identified from a stepwise variable selection method). The predictive models were constructed using machine learning methods, including logistic regression, random forest, support vector machine, and deep neural networks.
Results
Among 1,443 women, 86 (6.0%) were diagnosed with GDM. The highest performing prediction model among settings 1–4 was setting 4, which included both clinical and NAFLD-associated variables (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUC] 0.563–0.697 in settings 1–3 vs. 0.740–0.781 in setting 4). Setting 5, with top 11 variables (which included NAFLD and hepatic steatosis index), showed similar predictive power to setting 4 (AUC 0.719–0.819 in setting 5, P=not significant between settings 4 and 5).
Conclusions
We developed an early prediction model for GDM using machine learning. The inclusion of NAFLDassociated variables significantly improved the performance of GDM prediction. (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02276144)

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