Automated assessment of whole‐body adipose tissue depots from continuously moving bed MRI: A feasibility study

To present an automated algorithm for segmentation of visceral, subcutaneous, and total volumes of adipose tissue depots (VAT, SAT, TAT) from whole‐body MRI data sets and to investigate the VAT segmentation accuracy and the reproducibility of all depot assessments.

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