Scan of visceral fat ‘helps predict MI’

A radiological trainee has received a prize for automating the assessment of body composition
Reuters Health Staff writer
CT scan abdomen

An automated method for analysing body composition from one slice of an abdominal CT scan is better than BMI for predicting risk of MI and stroke, US researchers say.

The multidisciplinary team used artificial intelligence techniques to develop a fully automated way of determining body-composition metrics from abdominal CT images.