• DocumentCode
    307574
  • Title

    Automatic muscle/fat quantification on MR images

  • Author

    Colin, A. ; Erbland, E. ; Datin, C. ; Boire, J.-Y. ; Veyre, A. ; Zanca, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Nat. de la Sante et de la Recherche Med., Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    20-25 Sep 1995
  • Firstpage
    479
  • Abstract
    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
  • Keywords
    biomedical NMR; image segmentation; medical image processing; muscle; Gushing´s disease; MRI segmentation; automatic muscle/fat quantification; fully automatic method; intermuscular fat; magnetic resonance imaging; medical diagnostic imaging; men; patients characterization; subcutaneous fat; women; Bones; Diseases; Filters; Histograms; Image sampling; Image segmentation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscles; Pixel; Thigh;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Montreal, Que.
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2475-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575209
  • Filename
    575209
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=307574