Body composition analysis on computed tomography scans using easy-to-access segmentation software

[EN] Computed tomography (CT) is a direct and reference technique for body composition analysis with interesting possibilities in clinicalnutrition. Segmentation is the automatic or semi-automatic softwarebased process by which different metabolic tissues of interest (musclet issue, subcutaneous adi...

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Autores: Jiménez-Sánchez, Andrés, García-Luna, Pedro Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/422406
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/422406
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/105030957416
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Computed tomography
Body composition
Software
Artificial intelligence
Tomografía computarizada
Análisis de composición corporal
Inteligencia artificial
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Sumario:[EN] Computed tomography (CT) is a direct and reference technique for body composition analysis with interesting possibilities in clinicalnutrition. Segmentation is the automatic or semi-automatic softwarebased process by which different metabolic tissues of interest (musclet issue, subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue andintermuscular adipose tissue) that are part of the current diagnoses of malnutrition, sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity are delimited, separated and quantified. The Alberta protocol is the most common segmentation guide, being applicable in most software. In this paper, we review the main characteristics of the most common open-source segmentation software, their degree of agreement, and some precautions and limitations of this process.