自动分割CT图像中的肌肉与脂肪,支持全面体成分分析。
Automated Muscle and Fat Segmentation in Computed Tomography for Comprehensive Body Composition Analysis
- 基于深度学习的端到端模型,精准分割肌肉、皮下脂肪和内脏脂肪。
- 分割准确率超过89%,肌肉与脂肪比值误差低于10%。
- 适合临床研究、营养评估及肿瘤治疗效果预测等场景使用。
利用CT图像进行体成分评估在心血管预后、代谢健康评价、疾病进展监测、营养状态评估、肿瘤治疗反应预测及外科与重症风险分层中具有潜在应用价值。尽管多个团队开发了内部分割工具,但公开可用且可跨应用场景一致使用的工具仍极为有限。为此,我们提出一个公开可访问的端到端分割与特征计算模型,专门用于CT体成分分析。该模型在轴向CT图像中对胸、腹、盆腔区域的骨骼肌、皮下脂肪(SAT)和内脏脂肪(VAT)进行分割,并提供肌肉密度、内脏脂肪与皮下脂肪比值(VAT/SAT)、肌肉面积/体积及骨骼肌指数(SMI)等指标,支持二维与三维评估。通过内部与外部数据集验证,模型在骨骼肌、SAT和VAT分割上均获得超过89%的骰子系数,相比公开数据集的基准方法,骨骼肌分割提升2.10%,皮下脂肪分割提升8.6%。所有体成分指标的平均相对绝对误差(MRAE)均低于10%。模型权重已公开于https://github.com/mazurowski-lab/CT-Muscle-and-Fat-Segmentation.git。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Body composition assessment using CT images can potentially be used for a number of clinical applications, including the prognostication of cardiovascular outcomes, evaluation of metabolic health, monitoring of disease progression, assessment of nutritional status, prediction of treatment response in oncology, and risk stratification for surgical and critical care outcomes. While multiple groups have developed in-house segmentation tools for this analysis, there are very limited publicly available tools that could be consistently used across different applications. To mitigate this gap, we present a publicly accessible, end-to-end segmentation and feature calculation model specifically for CT body composition analysis. Our model performs segmentation of skeletal muscle, subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) across the chest, abdomen, and pelvis area in axial CT images. It also provides various body composition metrics, including muscle density, visceral-to-subcutaneous fat (VAT/SAT) ratio, muscle area/volume, and skeletal muscle index (SMI), supporting both 2D and 3D assessments. To evaluate the model, the segmentation was applied to both internal and external datasets, with body composition metrics analyzed across different age, sex, and race groups. The model achieved high dice coefficients on both internal and external datasets, exceeding 89% for skeletal muscle, SAT, and VAT segmentation. The model outperforms the benchmark by 2.10% on skeletal muscle and 8.6% on SAT compared to the manual annotations given by the publicly available dataset. Body composition metrics show mean relative absolute errors (MRAEs) under 10% for all measures. Our model with weights is publicly available at https://github.com/mazurowski-lab/CT-Muscle-and-Fat-Segmentation.git.
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