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Fully automated waist circumference measurement on abdominal CT: Comparison with manual measurements and potential value for identifying overweight and obesity as an adjunct output of CT scan

OBJECTIVE: Waist circumference (WC) is a widely accepted anthropometric parameter of central obesity. We investigated a fully automated body segmentation algorithm for measuring WC on abdominal computed tomography (CT) in comparison to manual WC measurements (WC-manual) and evaluated the performance...

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Autores principales: Joo, Ijin, Kwak, Min-Sun, Park, Dae Hyun, Yoon, Soon Ho
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34280224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254704