Noninvasive Diagnosis of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Advanced Liver Fibrosis Using Machine Learning Methods: Comparative Study With Existing Quantitative Risk Scores

Yonghui Wu   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Xi Yang   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Heather L Morris   ² , PhD ;   Matthew J Gurka   ¹ , PhD ;   Elizabeth A Shenkman   ¹ , PhD ;   Kenneth Cusi   ³ , MD ;   Fernando Bril   ⁴ , MD ;   William T Donahoo   ³ , MD

¹ Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

² Target RWE Health Evidence Solutions, Durham, NC, United States

³ Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

⁴ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, United States

*these authors contributed equally