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    • Medical Imaging
    • Radiology
    • Computational Anatomy

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    • Body composition, including muscle and fat proportions, is crucial for cancer patient outcomes.
    • Recent research links body composition to cancer survival, onset, and recurrence.
    • Accurate segmentation of tissues from CT images is needed for reliable body composition analysis.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce a fully automatic framework for segmenting muscle and fat tissues from CT images.
    • To enable precise estimation of body composition in cancer patients.
    • To improve the analysis of body composition's role in cancer research.

    Main Methods:

    • Development of a novel finite element method (FEM) deformable model.
    • Integration of a statistical deformation model (SDM) for a priori shape information.
    • Application within a template-based segmentation framework for automated tissue segmentation.

    Main Results:

    • Validation on a large dataset of 1000 abdominal and 530 thoracic CT images.
    • Achieved Jaccard scores exceeding 90% for both muscle and fat segmentation.
    • Demonstrated highly accurate segmentation of key body composition tissues.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed framework provides an effective and automated solution for body composition analysis from CT images.
    • Accurate body composition estimation can significantly contribute to cancer patient survival prediction and treatment strategies.
    • This method offers a valuable tool for advancing cancer research and clinical practice.