Automated quantification of abdominal adiposity by magnetic resonance imaging

To develop a fully‐automated algorithm to process axial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) slices for quantifying abdominal visceral, subcutaneous and total adipose tissues, i.e., VAT, SAT, and TAT, without human intervention or prior knowledge.

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