Aims Although obesity is associated with chronic disease, a large section of the population
with high BMI does not have an increased risk of metabolic disease. Increased visceral …

Muscle wasting and low muscle mass are prominent features of protein energy wasting
(PEW), sarcopenia and sarcopenic obesity in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). In …

Purpose Tracing muscle groups manually on CT to calculate body composition parameters
and diagnose sarcopenia is costly and time consuming. Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides …

Context Ectopic fat deposition in skeletal muscle, termed myosteatosis, is a key factor in
develo** insulin resistance. Objective This work aimed to evaluate the association …

Background Obesity is a known cardiovascular risk factor and associated with higher
postoperative complication rates in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. In heart failure …

Background Measurement of cross‐sectional muscle area (CSMA) at the mid third lumbar
vertebra (L3) level from computed tomography (CT) images is becoming one of the …

Sarcopenia is defined as the loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle function. It is common
in patients with malignancies and often associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The …

Abstract Rationale and Objectives We aim to develop a CT-based deep learning (DL)
system for fully automatic segmentation of regional muscle volume and measurement of the …

Background The efficacy of computed tomography-based multiple body composition
parameters in assessing disease behavior and prognosis has not been comprehensively …

Background In 2023, the concept of metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease
(MASLD) was introduced as an alternative to non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We …