Key result
An automatic and unsupervised MRI method for assessing abdominal fat correlated well with manual analysis and was significantly faster, eliminating intraobserver and interobserver variability.
Why the study?
Does an automatic unsupervised MRI analysis method accurately and rapidly assess abdominal fat compared to manual tracing in patients undergoing whole-abdomen MRI?
Population
20 patients undergoing whole-abdomen MRI
Comparison
Automatic and unsupervised method for assessing… vs Manual procedure
Design
Other
Authors
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May enable rapid, reproducible abdominal fat quantification on MRI; leaves open larger validation studies.
Does an automatic unsupervised MRI analysis method accurately and rapidly assess abdominal fat compared to manual tracing in patients undergoing whole-abdomen MRI?
An automated, unsupervised MRI analysis method can accurately and rapidly quantify subcutaneous and visceral abdominal fat without intra- or interobserver variability.
Positano et al. (2004) studied this question. Automatic and unsupervised method for assessing abdominal fat by MRI vs. Manual procedure was evaluated on Accuracy, reproducibility, and speed. An automatic and unsupervised MRI method for assessing abdominal fat correlated well with manual analysis and was significantly faster, eliminating intraobserver and interobserver variability.
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