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This study introduces C-SliceGen, a novel method for harmonizing abdominal CT slices for longitudinal body composition analysis. It effectively reduces positional variance, enabling more accurate aging and health condition studies.

Keywords:

abdominal slice generation body composition longitudinal data harmonization

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Area of Science:

Medical Imaging
Artificial Intelligence
Radiology

Background:

Computed tomography (CT) offers detailed abdominal imaging for aging and health research.
Longitudinal analysis is hindered by positional variations in single-slice CT scans over time.
Accurate body composition assessment requires consistent anatomical reference points.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a method, C-SliceGen, for generating consistent anatomical slices from variable longitudinal CT data.
To overcome challenges in body composition analysis caused by slice positional differences in CT scans.
To enable accurate quantitative characterization of aging-related changes in body composition.

Main Methods:

C-SliceGen utilizes an arbitrary axial abdominal CT slice as input.
The model generates a standardized slice at a pre-defined vertebral level.
Latent space estimation is employed to model structural changes and harmonize slice positions.

Main Results:

Experiments on over 2600 CT datasets demonstrated C-SliceGen's ability to generate realistic and high-quality images.
The method successfully harmonized longitudinal positional variations in visceral fat area.
Validation was performed on in-house datasets and the BTCV dataset.

Conclusions:

C-SliceGen offers a promising solution for standardizing single-slice CT data for longitudinal studies.
The approach effectively reduces positional variance, improving the accuracy of body composition analysis.
This method facilitates more reliable mapping of slices across different vertebral levels.