The Research of Tissue Segmentation Method on Thigh MRI

Adipose tissue segmentation of thigh magnetic resonance images is very valuable in diagnosis of metabolic syndrome and metabolic dysfunction. But it´s more difficult to segment the subcutaneous fat from inter-muscular fat. In this paper, a method combining the level-set and fuzzy C-means algorithms is proposed. The experimental results show that the subcutaneous fat tissue, inter-muscular fat tissue and other tissues of thigh can be segmented successfully using this method.