Body fat range setting in computed tomography image

Author

Kim, Seunghwan ; Lee, Sooyeul ; Pyo, H.-B. ; Park, Seon Hee

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Basic Res. Lab., Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

We suggest an automatic fat range setting method in computed tomography (CT) images for body fat measurement. We fitted the histograms of Hounsfield unit (HU) values at subcutaneous and abdominal regions in CT images as gaussian functions providing the body fat range as a function of its width and position. Since this method gives different body fat range according to the measured persons and regions, it reflects their characteristic very well

Keywords

biomedical measurement; computerised tomography; medical image processing; Hounsfield unit values; abdominal regions; automatic fat range setting method; body fat measurement; body fat range setting; computed tomography images; gaussian functions; histograms; persons; position; subcutaneous regions; width; Abdomen; Computed tomography; Density measurement; Diseases; Fats; Hip; Histograms; Laboratories; Thickness measurement; Volume measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804189

Filename

804189