Magnetic resonance imaging with k-means clustering objectively measures whole muscle volume compartments in sarcopenia/cancer cachexia

Calum Gray, Thomas J MacGillivray, Clare Eeley, Nathan A Stephens, Ian Beggs, Kenneth C Fearon, Carolyn A Greig

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Abstract

Sarcopenia and cachexia are characterized by infiltration of non-contractile tissue within muscle which influences area and volume measurements. We applied a statistical clustering (k-means) technique to magnetic resonance (MR) images of the quadriceps of young and elderly healthy women and women with cancer to objectively separate the contractile and non-contractile tissue compartments.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)106-11
Number of pages6
JournalClinical Nutrition
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

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