Fully-Automated Analysis of Body Composition from CT in Cancer Patients Using Convolutional Neural Networks

no code implementations • 11 Aug 2018 • Christopher P. Bridge, Michael Rosenthal, Bradley Wright, Gopal Kotecha, Florian Fintelmann, Fabian Troschel, Nityanand Miskin, Khanant Desai, William Wrobel, Ana Babic, Natalia Khalaf, Lauren Brais, Marisa Welch, Caitlin Zellers, Neil Tenenholtz, Mark Michalski, Brian Wolpin, Katherine Andriole

The amounts of muscle and fat in a person's body, known as body composition, are correlated with cancer risks, cancer survival, and cardiovascular risk.

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