Automatic Measurement of the Total Visceral Adipose Tissue From Computed Tomography Images by Using a Multi-Atlas Segmentation Method

Pierre Decazes (1) , Alexandra Rouquette , Annaëlle Chetrit , Pierre Vera (1, 2) , Isabelle Gardin (2, 1)

1 Service de médecine nucléaire [Rouen]
2 QuantIF-LITIS - Equipe Quantification en Imagerie Fonctionnelle

The visceral adipose tissue (VAT) volume is a predictive and/or prognostic factor for many cancers. The objective of our study was to develop an automatic measurement of the whole VAT volume using a multi-atlas segmentation (MAS) method from a computed tomography.

Domaines: Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]

Pierre Decazes, Alexandra Rouquette, Annaëlle Chetrit, Pierre Vera, Isabelle Gardin. Automatic Measurement of the Total Visceral Adipose Tissue From Computed Tomography Images by Using a Multi-Atlas Segmentation Method. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, 2018, 42 (1), pp.139-145. ⟨10.1097/RCT.0000000000000652⟩. ⟨hal-01637162⟩