TY - GEN
T1 - Automated discrimination method for measuring the thickness of muscular and subcutaneous fat layers based on tissue elasticity
AU - Inoue, Masahiro
AU - Fukuda, Osamu
AU - Tsubai, Masayoshi
AU - Muraki, Satoshi
AU - Okumura, Hiroshi
AU - Arai, Kohei
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The balance between human body composition, e.g. bones, muscles, and fat, is a major and basic indicator of personal health. This paper proposes a new discrimination method for measuring the thickness of subcutaneous fat and muscular layers based on tissue elasticity. The validity of the proposed method was evaluated in twenty-one subjects (twelve women, ten men; aged 20-70 yr) at three anatomical sites. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve considerably high discrimination performance.
AB - The balance between human body composition, e.g. bones, muscles, and fat, is a major and basic indicator of personal health. This paper proposes a new discrimination method for measuring the thickness of subcutaneous fat and muscular layers based on tissue elasticity. The validity of the proposed method was evaluated in twenty-one subjects (twelve women, ten men; aged 20-70 yr) at three anatomical sites. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve considerably high discrimination performance.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333718
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333718
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 19964380
AN - SCOPUS:77951004140
SN - 9781424432967
T3 - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
SP - 5175
EP - 5178
BT - Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009
Y2 - 2 September 2009 through 6 September 2009
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