Journal: PLoS ONE
Article Title: Tutorial for using SliceOmatic to calculate thigh area and composition from computed tomography images from older adults
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204529
Figure Lengend Snippet: Prior to beginning, the file location and pathway of the CT scan images should be known. CT grey level images will often be in DICOM file format and may show the extension *.dcm though SliceOmatic can read image files in other formats too. SliceOmatic segments tissue into regions using a script file run by the program. The user must create this file by pasting the following script text into Notepad, or similar program, and saving as an ANSI text file whose name must end with the extension “.scp”. The script sets the color for each “tag” and the density ranges to be applied when the Region Growing (“region”) or Histogram Segmentation (“histo”) modes are used for segmentation. Script Text to be copied into Notepad File titled “Thigh Segmentation Tutorial.scp” is shown.
Article Snippet: Calculation of tissue area from CT scans requires specialized image analysis software such as the commercially available graphics program SliceOmatic (Tomovision, Magog, Canada).
Techniques: Computed Tomography