arxiveess.IVcs.CV2026-07-08
Towards Accurate and Fast Clinical Body Composition: A Resource-Efficient Hierarchical Segmentation Framework for Multi-Source CT
Xiaodi Shen, Qingzhu Zheng, Yaoyang Qiu, Cien Fan, Ruonan Zhang, Yangdi Wang, et al.
Background: Automated 3D segmentation of muscles and adipose tissue from CT is vital for body composition analysis, but multi-source data heterogeneity and high CPU memory demands hinder clinical deployment. Methods: We propose a coarse-to-fine hierarchical framework to segment t…