Figure 2.

Change in body composition over time is hard to detect with the naked eye. Serial body composition analysis of a 61‐year‐old male patient with metastatic colon cancer. Left column: Serial axial computed tomography images at the level of the third lumbar vertebral body obtained at the time of metastatic disease diagnosis (baseline), and 3‐, 6‐, and 12‐month follow‐up. Right column: Corresponding segmentation of skeletal muscle (red), subcutaneous adipose tissue (green), and visceral adipose tissue (yellow). Twelve months following the diagnosis of metastatic disease, skeletal muscle had decreased by 20% and adipose tissue had reduced by 44% compared with baseline.