Artificial intelligence to assess body composition on routine abdominal CT scans and predict mortality in pancreatic cancer– A recipe for your local application

Abstract

Background

Body composition is associated with mortality; however its routine assessment is too time-consuming.

Purpose

To demonstrate the value of artificial intelligence (AI) to extract body composition measures from routine studies, we aimed to develop a fully automated AI approach to measure fat and muscles masses, to validate its clinical discriminatory value, and to provide the code, training data and...