Body composition
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Summary
This application takes an abdominal CT scan as input, locates the cross-section in the middle of the third lumbar vertebra (L3) and measures the area of subcutaneous (SAT), visceral (VAT), and intermuscular (IMAT) adipose tissue and smooth muscle (SM). The average Hounsfield Units (HU) of each area are also computed.
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This algorithm was developed for research purposes only.
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Sendak, M.P., Gao, M., Brajer, N. et al.
Presenting machine learning model information to clinical end users with model facts labels.
npj Digit. Med. 3, 41 (2020). 10.1038/s41746-020-0253-3