Study Background
♦Chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection is associated with cirrhosis, liver decompensation, and hepatocellular carcinoma♦ HBV DNA suppression and hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) loss are important outcomes for patients undergoing treatment for CHB infection; however, the relationships of these outcomes with histology have not been fully elucidated
♦ Computational pathology leveraging convolutional neural networks could facilitate characterization of histologic features associated with HBV DNA suppression and HBeAg loss Shukla et al.
