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Visceral fat area (VFA) has close relationship with hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and therefore serve as a reliable indicator of these diseases. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) enables precise quantification of the VFA and has been considered as the gold standard for VFA assessment. In this paper, we develope a novel method to quickly and accurately measure the VFA with ultrasonography (US). We evaluated the novel method on five volunteers and the diagnosis procedures lasted less than 30 seconds averagely. The simulation results by our method were compared with VFA estimated by abdominal CT. The correlation coefficient between them was 0.913 for men and 0.858 for women. And the mean deviation of between VFA by CT and by our method was 19.8cm 2 for men and 13.3cm 2 for women.
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- Abdominal Compute Tomography
- Visceral Obesity
- Diagnosis Procedure
- Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Method
- Abdominal Compute Tomography Image
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Zhou, Y. et al. (2010). Fast and Accurate Ultrasonography for Visceral Fat Measurement. In: Jiang, T., Navab, N., Pluim, J.P.W., Viergever, M.A. (eds) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010. MICCAI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15745-5_7
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