Body composition assessment in axial CT images using FEM-based automatic segmentation of skeletal muscle

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 512-520

  Popuri, Karteek ^a   Cobzas, Dana ^a   Esfandiari, Nina ^a   Baracos, Vickie ^a   Jägersand, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abdominal CT; Finite element method (FEM); Muscle segmentation; Thoracic CT

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MUSCLE; TISSUE;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; DEFORMABLE MODELING; MUSCLE SEGMENTATION; PATIENT SURVIVALS; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SHAPE INFORMATION; STATISTICAL DEFORMATION MODELS; THORACIC CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BODY COMPOSITION; MODEL; MUSCLE TISSUE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THORAX; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BODY COMPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84959378181     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2479252     Document Type: Article

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