Assessing liver fibrosis in chronic liver disease: Comparison of diffusion-weighted MR elastography and two-dimensional shear-wave elastography using histopathologic assessment as the reference standard

LSM by 2D SWE yields larger AUCs compared to µ_Diff obtained from DWI-based virtual elastography for various stages of liver fibrosis. LSM is superior to µ_Diff in predicting advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis.