Internal calibration for opportunistic computed tomography muscle density analysis.

Ainsley C J SmithJustin J TseTadiwa H WaunganaKirsten N BottMichael T KuczynskiAndrew S MichalskiSteven K BoydSarah L Manske

Published in: PloS one (2022)

We have developed an internal calibration method to produce accurate and reliable muscle density measures from opportunistic computed tomography images without the need for calibration phantoms.

Keyphrases

computed tomography
positron emission tomography
low cost
skeletal muscle
magnetic resonance imaging
dual energy
deep learning
contrast enhanced
high resolution
convolutional neural network
mass spectrometry