Advanced body composition assessment: from body mass index to body composition profiling

M Borga, J West, JD Bell, NC Harvey… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper gives a brief overview of common non-invasive techniques for body composition
analysis and a more in-depth review of a body composition assessment method based on …

Quantifying skeletal muscle volume and shape in humans using MRI: a systematic review of validity and reliability

C Pons, B Borotikar, M Garetier, V Burdin… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Aims The aim of this study was to report the metrological qualities of techniques currently
used to quantify skeletal muscle volume and 3D shape in healthy and pathological muscles …

Automated muscle segmentation from clinical CT using Bayesian U-Net for personalized musculoskeletal modeling

Y Hiasa, Y Otake, M Takao, T Ogawa… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT.
The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using …

Magnetic resonance imaging assessments for knee segmentation and their use in combination with machine/deep learning as predictors of early osteoarthritis …

J Martel-Pelletier, P Paiement… - Therapeutic Advances …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent and disabling disease that can develop over
decades. This disease is heterogeneous and involves structural changes in the whole joint …

Clinical evaluation of fully automated thigh muscle and adipose tissue segmentation using a U-Net deep learning architecture in context of osteoarthritic knee pain

J Kemnitz, CF Baumgartner, F Eckstein… - … Resonance Materials in …, 2020 - Springer
Objective Segmentation of thigh muscle and adipose tissue is important for the
understanding of musculoskeletal diseases such as osteoarthritis. Therefore, the purpose of …

Incorporating prior knowledge in medical image segmentation: a survey

MS Nosrati, G Hamarneh - arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01092, 2016 - arxiv.org
Medical image segmentation, the task of partitioning an image into meaningful parts, is an
important step toward automating medical image analysis and is at the crux of a variety of …

Automatic segmentation of all lower limb muscles from high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging using a cascaded three-dimensional deep convolutional neural …

R Ni, CH Meyer, SS Blemker, JM Hart… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging with fat suppression can obtain accurate
anatomical information of all 35 lower limb muscles and individual segmentation can …

Healthy versus pathological learning transferability in shoulder muscle MRI segmentation using deep convolutional encoder-decoders

PH Conze, S Brochard, V Burdin, FT Sheehan… - … Medical Imaging and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fully-automated segmentation of pathological shoulder muscles in patients with musculo-
skeletal diseases is a challenging task due to the huge variability in muscle shape, size …

Overview of MR image segmentation strategies in neuromuscular disorders

AC Ogier, MA Hostin, ME Bellemare… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Neuromuscular disorders are rare diseases for which few therapeutic strategies currently
exist. Assessment of therapeutic strategies efficiency is limited by the lack of biomarkers …

MRI adipose tissue and muscle composition analysis—a review of automation techniques

M Borga - The British journal of radiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
MRI is becoming more frequently used in studies involving measurements of adipose tissue
and volume and composition of skeletal muscles. The large amount of data generated by …