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The quantification of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is increasingly being considered for risk assessment and treatment monitoring in obese patients, but is generally time‐consuming. The goals of this work were to semi‐automatically segment and quantify VAT areas of MRI slices at previously proposed anatomical landmarks and to evaluate their predictive power for whole‐abdominal VAT volumes on a relatively...
Subcutaneous (SAT) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) differ in composition, endocrine function and localization in the body. VAT is considered to play a role in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and other obesity‐related disorders. It has been shown that the amount, distribution, and (cellular) composition of adipose tissue (AT) correlate well with metabolic...
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