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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-11-16
pubmed:abstractText
Balance between human body compositions, e.g. bones, muscles, and fat, is one of the major and basic indicators related to personal health. Body composition analysis using ultrasound imaging has developed rapidly. However, interpretation of ultrasound images is conducted manually, and accuracy and confidence in interpretation requires experience. This paper proposes an automated approach to determine boundaries between tissues, with which thickness of subcutaneous fat and muscles can be obtained. A portable B-mode ultrasound echographic device, which is called Ubiquitous Echo, was used in this study. The validity of the proposed method was evaluated in eleven subjects (three women, eight men; ages 22-77 yr) at three anatomical sites. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve considerably high discrimination performance.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1557-170X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
2007
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1330-4
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Algorithms, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Artificial Intelligence, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Body Composition, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Discriminant Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Image Enhancement, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Imaging, Three-Dimensional, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Pattern Recognition, Automated, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Ultrasonography, pubmed-meshheading:18002209-Whole Body Imaging
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Automated discrimination of tissue boundaries using ultrasound images of "ubiquitous echo".
pubmed:affiliation
Graduate Schools Science and Engineering Information Science, Saga University, 1 Honjo-machi, Saga, Saga, 840-8502, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article