CT-based Body Composition: The Sky is the Limit

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Date: March 21, 2025 12-1 PM Eastern Time

Speakers: Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD

Body mass index is used ubiquitously throughout medicine, but has limited correlation with the proportion and distribution of adipose tissue throughout the body. CT-based body composition analysis techniques using deep learning provide quantification of skeletal muscle, visceral fat and subcutaneous fat, which have been correlated with overall survival, cancer-related outcomes and cardiovascular events among other clinical outcomes. New studies relate to looking at changes in body composition over time compared to single time point analyses, comparing population distributions of body composition at Duke to the Northeast, harnessing body composition data to optimize patient selection for bariatric surgery and lung transplantation among other studies.