An accurate and robust method for unsupervised assessment of abdominal fat by MRI

Purpose To describe and evaluate an automatic and unsupervised method for assessing the quantity and distribution of abdominal adipose tissue by MRI. Material and Methods A total of 20 patients underwent whole‐abdomen MRI. A total of 32 transverse T1‐weighted images were acquired from each subject....

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Published in:	Journal of magnetic resonance imaging Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 684 - 689
Main Authors:	Positano, Vincenzo, Gastaldelli, Amalia, Sironi, Anna maria, Santarelli, Maria Filomena, Lombardi, Massimo, Landini, Luigi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.10.2004
Subjects:	abdomen abdomen, MR studies Abdominal Cavity - pathology abdominal fat Adipose Tissue - pathology Anthropometry fuzzy clustering Fuzzy Logic Humans image processing Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods MR studies Obesity - diagnosis Reproducibility of Results visceral fat
ISSN:	1053-1807, 1522-2586
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