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The quantification of fat depots on the surroundings of the heart is an accurate procedure for evaluating health risk factors correlated with several diseases. However, this type of evaluation is not widely employed in clinical practice due…

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Quantification of adipose tissue (fat) from computed tomography (CT) scans is conducted mostly through manual or semi-automated image segmentation algorithms with limited efficacy. In this work, we propose a completely unsupervised and…

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Accurate segmentation of abdominal adipose tissue, including subcutaneous (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT), along with liver segmentation, is essential for understanding body composition and associated health risks such as type 2…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Mansoor Hayat , Supavadee Aramvith , Subrata Bhattacharjee , Nouman Ahmad

The deposits of fat on the surroundings of the heart are correlated to several health risk factors such as atherosclerosis, carotid stiffness, coronary artery calcification, atrial fibrillation and many others. These deposits vary unrelated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Érick Oliveira Rodrigues , FFC Morais , NAOS Morais , LS Conci , LV Neto , Aura Conci

The amount of fat on the surroundings of the heart is correlated to several health risk factors such as carotid stiffness, coronary artery calcification, atrial fibrillation, atherosclerosis, cancer incidence and others. Furthermore, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 É. O. Rodrigues , A. Conci , F. F. C. Morais , M. G. Pérez

Accurate musculoskeletal soft tissue tumor segmentation is vital for assessing tumor size, location, diagnosis, and response to treatment, thereby influencing patient outcomes. However, segmentation of these tumors requires clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Tahsin Reasat , Stephen Chenard , Akhil Rekulapelli , Nicholas Chadwick , Joanna Shechtel , Katherine van Schaik , David S. Smith , Joshua Lawrenz

Muscle volume is a useful quantitative biomarker in sports, but also for the follow-up of degenerative musculo-skelletal diseases. In addition to volume, other shape biomarkers can be extracted by segmenting the muscles of interest from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Louise Piecuch , Vanessa Gonzales Duque , Aurélie Sarcher , Enzo Hollville , Antoine Nordez , Giuseppe Rabita , Gaël Guilhem , Diana Mateus

When delineating lesions from medical images, a human expert can always keep in mind the anatomical structure behind the voxels. However, although high-quality (though not perfect) anatomical information can be retrieved from computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Rongzhao Zhang , Zhian Bai , Ruoying Yu , Wenrao Pang , Lingyun Wang , Lifeng Zhu , Xiaofan Zhang , Huan Zhang , Weiguo Hu

Objective: To demonstrate the effectiveness of using a deep learning-based approach for a fully automated slice-based measurement of muscle mass for assessing sarcopenia on CT scans of the abdomen without any case exclusion criteria.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-12 Fahdi Kanavati , Shah Islam , Zohaib Arain , Eric O. Aboagye , Andrea Rockall

One of the greatest challenges in the medical imaging domain is to successfully transfer deep learning models into clinical practice. Since models are often trained on a specific body region, a robust transfer into the clinic necessitates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Sarah Schuhegger

Since the introduction of TotalSegmentator CT, there is demand for a similar robust automated MRI segmentation tool that can be applied across all MRI sequences and anatomic structures. In this retrospective study, a nnU-Net model…

Most deep learning models in medical imaging are trained on adult data with unclear performance on pediatric images. In this work, we aim to address this challenge in the context of automated anatomy segmentation in whole-body Computed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Chih-Ying Liu , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Camila Gonzalez , Curtis Langlotz , Andrew Ng , Sergios Gatidis

Background: Increased pericardial adipose tissue (PAT) is associated with many types of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although cardiac magnetic resonance images (CMRI) are often acquired in patients with CVD, there are currently no tools to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-10 Zhuoyu Li , Camille Petri , James Howard , Graham Cole , Marta Varela

Deep learning-based image segmentation has allowed for the fully automated, accurate, and rapid analysis of musculoskeletal (MSK) structures from medical images. However, current approaches were either applied only to 2D cross-sectional…

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Organ segmentation is a prerequisite for a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system to detect pathologies and perform quantitative analysis. For anatomically high-variability abdominal organs such as the pancreas, previous segmentation works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Amal Farag , Le Lu , Evrim Turkbey , Jiamin Liu , Ronald M. Summers

Various applications of farm animal imaging are based on the estimation of weights of certain body parts and cuts from the CT images of animals. In many cases, the complexity of the problem is increased by the enormous variability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Ádám Csóka , György Kovács , Virág Ács , Zsolt Matics , Zsolt Gerencsér , Zsolt Szendrő , István Nagy , Örs Petneházy , Imre Repa , Mariann Moizs , Tamás Donkó

Multi-organ segmentation in whole-body computed tomography (CT) is a constant pre-processing step which finds its application in organ-specific image retrieval, radiotherapy planning, and interventional image analysis. We address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Fernando Navarro , Suprosanna Shit , Ivan Ezhov , Johannes Paetzold , Andrei Gafita , Jan Peeken , Stephanie Combs , Bjoern Menze

Purpose: The distribution of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) in cystectomy patients is indicative of the incidence of post-operative complications. Existing VAT segmentation methods for computed tomography (CT) employing intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Thomas Boucher , Nicholas Tetlow , Annie Fung , Amy Dewar , Pietro Arina , Sven Kerneis , John Whittle , Evangelos B. Mazomenos

It is well known that machine learning models require a high amount of annotated data to obtain optimal performance. Labelling Computed Tomography (CT) data can be a particularly challenging task due to its volumetric nature and often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Franko Hrzic , Mohammadreza Movahhedi , Ophelie Lavoie-Gagne , Ata Kiapour