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Development and validation of a rapid and robust method to determine visceral adipose tissue volume using computed tomography images

BACKGROUND: Visceral adiposity is a risk factor for many chronic diseases. Existing methods to quantify visceral adipose tissue volume using computed tomographic (CT) images often use a single slice, are manual, and are time consuming, making them impractical for large population studies. We develop...

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Autores principales: Parikh, Aaroh M., Coletta, Adriana M., Yu, Z. Henry, Rauch, Gaiane M., Cheung, Joey P., Court, Laurence E., Klopp, Ann H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5578607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28859115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183515