A fully convolutional neural network for comprehensive compartmentalization of abdominal adipose tissue compartments in MRI

Yeshe M. Kway, Kashthuri Thirumurugan, Navin Michael, Kok Hian Tan, Keith M. Godfrey, Peter D. Gluckman, Yap-Seng Chong, Kavita Venkataraman, Eric Yin Hao Khoo, Chin Meng Khoo, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, E. Shyong Tai, Jerry KY. Chan, Shiao-Yng Chan, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Marielle V. Fortier, Yung Seng Lee, S. Sendhil Velan, Mengling Feng, Suresh Anand Sadananthan

Abstract: Highlights•Deep learning-based fully automated segmentation of abdominal fat sub-depots.•Visceral adipose tissue depots: intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal and paraspinal fat.•Subcutaneous adipose tissue depots: deep and superficial fat.•High segmentation accuracy with Dice similarity >95%.•High generalizability across data from different MR scanners and participants.