Automatic muscle/fat quantification on MR images

Automatic muscle/fat quantification on MR images

A fully automatic method for the segmentation of muscle, subcutaneous and inter-muscular fat from MR images of the thigh is presented. The process is rather robust, able to recognize men from women and thus to characterize patients affected by Gushing's disease.

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Hauptverfasser: Colin, A., Erbland, E., Datin, C., Boire, J.Y., Veyre, A., Zanca, M.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Bones
Diseases
Filters
Histograms
Image sampling
Image segmentation
Magnetic resonance imaging
Muscles
Pixel
Thigh
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Zusammenfassung:A fully automatic method for the segmentation of muscle, subcutaneous and inter-muscular fat from MR images of the thigh is presented. The process is rather robust, able to recognize men from women and thus to characterize patients affected by Gushing's disease.
DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575209