Steve Cheuk Ngai Hui1, Teng Zhang1, Defeng Wang1, and Winnie Chiu Wing Chu1
This abstract introduces the use of
wheel-template to perform segmentation on subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT)
and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) at the abdominal region. The proposed method
detects narrow regions between SAT and VAT, and uses line cut to separate two
types of tissues based on MRI data. It performs well on obese individuals and
the obtained results are correlated to those obtained from a semi-automatic
method. A quantitative measurement of SAT and VAT is important as they are
developed from different pathways and suggested to be related to different
chronic diseases.
