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COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE
卷 68, 期 3, 页码 185-193出版社
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2607(01)00172-9
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body composition; MR imaging; fuzzy clustering; physical training
Physical training is proved to induce changes in physical capacity and body composition. We propose in this article a fast, unsupervised and fully three-dimensional automatic method to extract muscle and fat volumes from magnetic resonance images of thighs in order to assess these changes. The technique relies on the use of a fuzzy clustering algorithm and post-processings to trustfully process the body composition of thighs. Results are compared on I I healthy voluntary elderly people with those provided on the same data by a validated method already published, and its reliability is assessed on repeated measures on three subjects. The two methods statistically agree when computing muscle and fat volumes, and clinical implications of this fully automatic method are important for medicine, physical conditioning, weight-loss programs and predictions of optimal body weight. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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