Table 2.

Select recent references, in chronological order, on adipose tissue segmentation and quantification in animal studies

References	Remarks
Fowler et al. [58]	Manual segmentation, lean versus obese pigs, T1-weighted 0.04 T multi-slice MRI, validation with post-mortem carcass chemical analysis
Mitchell et al. [59]	Manual segmentation, pig, T1- and T2-weighted 1.5 and 4.7 T multi-slice MRI, validation with post-mortem carcass chemical analysis
Ranefall et al. [60]	Automated segmentation based on histogram and region-growing schemes, mice, T1- and T2-weighted 9.4 T 3D MRI
Luu et al. [61]	Semi-automated segmentation, mice, microCT, cross-sectional study, in silico validation
Johnson et al. [62]	Semi-automated fat fraction-based segmentation, mice, chemical-shift encoded water–fat 7 T multi-slice MRI, cross-sectional study, in vitro validation
Johnson et al. [63]
Tang et al. [64]	Automated segmentation based on adaptive fuzzy C-means method, T1-weighted 7 T multi-slice MRI, cross-sectional study
Sasser et al. [65]	Semi-automated segmentation, mice, CT, cross-sectional study
Garteiser et al. [66]	Semi-automated histogram-based segmentation, mice, water-suppressed 7 T multi-slice MRI, cross-sectional study, correlation with DXA
Gifford et al. [67]	Semi-automated fat fraction-based segmentation, dog, chemical-shift encoded water–fat 3 T multi-slice MRI, longitudinal study, correlation with scale weight