TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic segmentation of adipose viseral tissue from CAT images, employing anatomical invariants
AU - Mendoza, Ricardo
AU - Sánchez, Andrés
AU - Uriza, Luis Felipe
AU - Hoyos, Marcela Hernández
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Metabolic syndrome and its relation with the distribution of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), has aroused great interest in the development of image processing tools for its automatic quantification. A new technique for automatic segmentation of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in computerized axial tomography (CT) images, by means of assessing local anatomical invariants is presented. The assessing made by an expert of the segmented images, showed low error in the quantification of VAT tissue and a high tolerance to different anatomical configurations and other kinds of image problems.
AB - Metabolic syndrome and its relation with the distribution of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), has aroused great interest in the development of image processing tools for its automatic quantification. A new technique for automatic segmentation of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in computerized axial tomography (CT) images, by means of assessing local anatomical invariants is presented. The assessing made by an expert of the segmented images, showed low error in the quantification of VAT tissue and a high tolerance to different anatomical configurations and other kinds of image problems.
KW - Computerized Axial Tomography
KW - Image Processing
KW - Image segmentation
KW - Visceral adipose tissue
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960657648&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/COLOMCC.2011.5936298
DO - 10.1109/COLOMCC.2011.5936298
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960657648
SN - 9781457702853
T3 - 2011 6th Colombian Computing Congress, CCC 2011
BT - 2011 6th Colombian Computing Congress, CCC 2011
T2 - 2011 6th Colombian Computing Congress, CCC 2011
Y2 - 4 May 2011 through 6 May 2011
ER -