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  • Nephrology
  • Biomedical Optics
  • Medical Diagnostics

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  • Quantitative assessment of renal fibrosis via biopsy is challenging due to time, variability, and sampling errors.
  • Accurate fibrosis assessment is crucial for donor kidney evaluation, as ~20% of grafts are rejected due to assessment errors.
  • Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (ESS) offers a potential objective, rapid alternative for intrarenal fibrosis assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the accuracy of intrarenal Elastic Scattering Spectroscopy (ESS) for quantifying renal fibrosis.
  • To compare ESS-based fibrosis assessment with the conventional interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IFTA) scoring.
  • To evaluate the utility of ESS for point-of-care, multi-site kidney tissue evaluation.

Main Methods:

  • A rat model of chronic kidney disease was used to acquire spectral data using a fine-needle ESS probe at three intrarenal depths.
  • Linear regression and random forests (RFs) were employed to correlate ESS spectral features with histopathological IFTA scores.
  • Continuous and categorical RF models were developed to predict fibrosis severity at different depths.

Main Results:

  • RF regression demonstrated high accuracy in predicting fibrosis across different depths (R2 values up to 0.961 when averaged).
  • Categorical RF models achieved high prediction accuracies, with an overall average of 98.61% after cross-validation.
  • ESS measurements showed progressive fibrosis over 4 weeks in the rat model.

Conclusions:

  • Intrarenal ESS provides a robust, depth-resolved, quantitative estimation of renal fibrosis, closely matching histological IFTA scoring.
  • Multi-depth sampling with ESS enhances predictive accuracy by mitigating local fibrosis variability.
  • ESS serves as an objective, rapid adjunct for point-of-care kidney tissue evaluation, potentially eliminating the need for biopsies.