Automatic muscle and fat segmentation in the thigh from T1-Weighted MRI

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 601-610

  Orgiu, Sara ^a,b   Lafortuna, Claudio L ^a   Rastelli, Fabio ^a   Cadioli, Marcello ^c   Falini, Andrea ^d   Rizzo, Giovanna ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOIMAGING AND PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

IMAT; MRI; muscle; segmentation; Snake; thigh

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERMUSCULAR ADIPOSE TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THIGH; AGE; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY COMPOSITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FUZZY LOGIC; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BODY COMPOSITION; FASCIA; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBESITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THIGH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959467710     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.25031     Document Type: Article

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