Body composition techniques

R Kuriyan - Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Body composition is known to be associated with several diseases, such as cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, cancers, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. Body composition …

Advanced body composition assessment: from body mass index to body composition profiling

M Borga, J West, JD Bell, NC Harvey… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper gives a brief overview of common non-invasive techniques for body composition
analysis and a more in-depth review of a body composition assessment method based on …

Perspective of artificial intelligence in healthcare data management: A journey towards precision medicine

NS Gupta, P Kumar - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Mounting evidence has highlighted the implementation of big data handling and
management in the healthcare industry to improve the clinical services. Various private and …

Multi-atlas segmentation of biomedical images: a survey

JE Iglesias, MR Sabuncu - Medical image analysis, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Multi-atlas segmentation (MAS), first introduced and popularized by the pioneering
work of Rohlfing, et al.(2004), Klein, et al.(2005), and Heckemann, et al.(2006), is becoming …

Effects of liraglutide on visceral and ectopic fat in adults with overweight and obesity at high cardiovascular risk: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled …

IJ Neeland, SP Marso, CR Ayers, B Lewis… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Visceral and ectopic fat are key drivers of adverse cardiometabolic outcomes in
obesity. We aimed to evaluate the effects of injectable liraglutide 3· 0 mg daily on body fat …

Skeletal muscle mass and quality: evolution of modern measurement concepts in the context of sarcopenia

SB Heymsfield, MC Gonzalez, J Lu, G Jia… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The first reports of accurate skeletal muscle mass measurement in human subjects
appeared at about the same time as introduction of the sarcopenia concept in the late …

Big data, big knowledge: big data for personalized healthcare

M Viceconti, P Hunter, R Hose - IEEE journal of biomedical and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The idea that the purely phenomenological knowledge that we can extract by analyzing
large amounts of data can be useful in healthcare seems to contradict the desire of VPH …

Muscle strength, size, and composition following 12 months of gender-affirming treatment in transgender individuals

A Wiik, TR Lundberg, E Rullman… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Context As many sports are divided in male/female categories, governing bodies have
formed regulations on the eligibility for transgender individuals to compete in these …

Automated muscle segmentation from clinical CT using Bayesian U-Net for personalized musculoskeletal modeling

Y Hiasa, Y Otake, M Takao, T Ogawa… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a method for automatic segmentation of individual muscles from a clinical CT.
The method uses Bayesian convolutional neural networks with the U-Net architecture, using …

Body composition profiling in the UK Biobank Imaging Study

J Linge, M Borga, J West, T Tuthill, MR Miller… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective This study aimed to investigate the value of imaging‐based multivariable body
composition profiling by describing its association with coronary heart disease (CHD), type 2 …