Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images.
Obesity is increasingly prevalent and associated with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an accurate method for determination of body fat volume and distribution. However, quantifying body fat from numerous MRI slice...
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| description | Obesity is increasingly prevalent and associated with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an accurate method for determination of body fat volume and distribution. However, quantifying body fat from numerous MRI slices is tedious and time-consuming. Here we developed a deep learning-based method for measuring visceral and subcutaneous fat in the abdominal region of mice. Congenic mice only differ from C57BL/6 (B6) Apoe knockout (Apoe-/-) mice in chromosome 9 that is replaced by C3H/HeJ genome. Male congenic mice had lighter body weight than B6-Apoe-/- mice after being fed 14 weeks of Western diet. Axial and coronal T1-weighted sequencing at 1-mm-thickness and 1-mm-gap was acquired with a 7T Bruker ClinScan scanner. A deep learning approach was developed for segmenting visceral and subcutaneous fat based on the U-net architecture made publicly available through the open-source ANTsRNet library-a growing repository of well-known neural networks. The volumes of subcutaneous and visceral fat measured through our approach were highly comparable with those from manual measurements. The Dice score, root-mean-square error (RMSE), and correlation analysis demonstrated the similarity between two methods in quantifying visceral and subcutaneous fat. Analysis with the automated method showed significant reductions in volumes of visceral and subcutaneous fat but not non-fat tissues in congenic mice compared to B6 mice. These results demonstrate the accuracy of deep learning in quantification of abdominal fat and its significance in determining body weight. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a5b60f456284d51bdda8df329164c602022-12-21T18:48:17ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01139e020407110.1371/journal.pone.0204071Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images.Andrew T GraingerNicholas J TustisonKun QingRene RoyStuart S BerrWeibin ShiObesity is increasingly prevalent and associated with increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an accurate method for determination of body fat volume and distribution. However, quantifying body fat from numerous MRI slices is tedious and time-consuming. Here we developed a deep learning-based method for measuring visceral and subcutaneous fat in the abdominal region of mice. Congenic mice only differ from C57BL/6 (B6) Apoe knockout (Apoe-/-) mice in chromosome 9 that is replaced by C3H/HeJ genome. Male congenic mice had lighter body weight than B6-Apoe-/- mice after being fed 14 weeks of Western diet. Axial and coronal T1-weighted sequencing at 1-mm-thickness and 1-mm-gap was acquired with a 7T Bruker ClinScan scanner. A deep learning approach was developed for segmenting visceral and subcutaneous fat based on the U-net architecture made publicly available through the open-source ANTsRNet library-a growing repository of well-known neural networks. The volumes of subcutaneous and visceral fat measured through our approach were highly comparable with those from manual measurements. The Dice score, root-mean-square error (RMSE), and correlation analysis demonstrated the similarity between two methods in quantifying visceral and subcutaneous fat. Analysis with the automated method showed significant reductions in volumes of visceral and subcutaneous fat but not non-fat tissues in congenic mice compared to B6 mice. These results demonstrate the accuracy of deep learning in quantification of abdominal fat and its significance in determining body weight.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6147491?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Andrew T Grainger Nicholas J Tustison Kun Qing Rene Roy Stuart S Berr Weibin Shi Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. PLoS ONE |
| title | Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. |
| title_full | Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. |
| title_fullStr | Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. |
| title_short | Deep learning-based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images. |
| title_sort | deep learning based quantification of abdominal fat on magnetic resonance images |
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