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After excluding 15 cases, 44 patients remained for analysis. Clinical variables (sex, age, body weight, estimated glomerular filtration rate) and kidney volume-related and texture metrics extracted from unenhanced CT were analyzed for inter-reader repeatability and correlation with renal parenchymal involvement.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Kidney involvement of IgG4-RD was determined on CE-CT by a rheumatologist and a radiologist in consensus, resulting in 23 cases with and 21 cases without renal parenchymal involvement. One radiologist and a radiology resident independently extracted metrics from unenhanced CT. Two metrics, kidney volume per body weight and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) cluster shade, showed high repeatability (intraclass correlation coefficients 0.997 and 0.762, respectively) and significant association with renal parenchymal involvement (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve [AUROC]\u2009&gt;\u20090.75). Binary logistic regression combining these two metrics predicted renal parenchymal involvement with AUROCs of 0.872 and 0.896 for the two readers, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A combination of kidney volume per body weight and GLCM cluster shade derived from unenhanced CT can predict renal parenchymal involvement in IgG4-RD.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Relevance statement<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The combination of two unenhanced CT-related metrics\u2212kidney volume per body weight and GLCM cluster shade\u2212can predict renal parenchymal involvement of immunoglobulin G4-related disease, with the AUROCs for the two readers being 0.872 and 0.896, respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Key Points<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>Unenhanced CT has been considered not to detect renal parenchymal involvement of IgG4-RD.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>By using image segmentation and texture analysis techniques, renal parenchymal involvement could be predicted in IgG4-RD.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>A combination of kidney volume per body weight and GLCM cluster shade could predict renal parenchymal involvement with high AUROC.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <\/jats:list>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s41747-026-00768-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,25]],"date-time":"2026-06-25T17:53:12Z","timestamp":1782409992000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["A combination of unenhanced CT-derived features predicts renal parenchymal involvement of immunoglobulin G4-related disease"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Jun","family":"Inui","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hidenori","family":"Amaike","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Masatoshi","family":"Kanda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naoya","family":"Yama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hiroki","family":"Takahashi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4589-1578","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masamitsu","family":"Hatakenaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"768_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1265","DOI":"10.1148\/rg.2020200043","volume":"40","author":"JW Oh","year":"2020","unstructured":"Oh JW, Rha SE, Choi MH, Oh SN, Youn SY, Choi JI (2020) Immunoglobulfn G4-related disease of the genitourinary system: spectrum of imaging findings and clinical-pathologic features. 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