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Body composition from single versus multi‐slice abdominal computed tomography: Concordance and associations with colorectal cancer survival

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Computed tomography (CT) scans are routinely obtained in oncology and provide measures of muscle and adipose tissue predictive of morbidity and mortality. Automated segmentation of CT has advanced past single… Click to show full abstract

Computed tomography (CT) scans are routinely obtained in oncology and provide measures of muscle and adipose tissue predictive of morbidity and mortality. Automated segmentation of CT has advanced past single slices to multi‐slice measurements, but the concordance of these approaches and their associations with mortality after cancer diagnosis have not been compared.

Keywords: cancer; multi slice; computed tomography; concordance

Journal Title: Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Year Published: 2022

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