title: Fast and accurate ultrasonography for visceral fat measurement.
abstract: Visceral fat area (VFA) has close relationship with hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and therefore serve as a reliable indicator of these diseases. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) enables precise quantification of the VFA and has been considered as the gold standard for VFA assessment. In this paper, we develope a novel method to quickly and accurately measure the VFA with ultrasonography (US). We evaluated the novel method on five volunteers and the diagnosis procedures lasted less than 30 seconds averagely. The simulation results by our method were compared with VFA estimated by abdominal CT. The correlation coefficient between them was 0.913 for men and 0.858 for women. And the mean deviation of between VFA by CT and by our method was 19.8 cm2 for men and 13.3 cm2 for women.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. zhouyou@bmpe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
authors.forename: You
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Norihiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Naoto
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kubota
authors.forename: Takaharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Asano
authors.forename: Kazuhito
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yuhashi
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mochizuki
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kadowaki
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Sakuma
authors.forename: Hongen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D050152:Intra-Abdominal Fat / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014159:Transducers; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation*