International journal of obesity : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity
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(1) To develop a fully automated algorithm for segmentation of visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), excluding intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) and bone marrow (BM), from axial abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. (2) To evaluate the algorithm accuracy and total method reproducibility using a semi-automatically segmented reference and data from repeated measurements. ⋯ An automated method for segmentation of VAT and SAT and exclusion of IMAT and BM from abdominal MRI data has been reported. The accuracy and reproducibility of the method has also been demonstrated using a semi-automatically segmented reference and analysis of repeated acquisitions. The accuracy of the method is limited in lean subjects.