Table 2.
Volume measurement outcomes for individual studies
| Citation | Muscle segmentation: Manual/ automatic |
Volume Full/partial |
Software used | Equation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ackland et al. 2019 [66] | Semi-automatic |
Full (excl. fat) |
Amira FEI (V 5.3.3, FEI Visualization Sciences Group) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness, normalised to body weight |
| Amabile et al. 2017 [104] | Manual | Full | Imaging software developed by researchers’ institution | “Volume” was normalized to subject height |
| Belzunce et al., 2020 [52] |
Automatic & Manual |
Partial (excl. top & bottom extremes, & fat) |
Simpleware ™ (V 2018.12, ScanIP) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Belzunce et al., 2021 [91] | Automatic | Full |
Simpleware ™ (V 2020.6, ScanIP) |
Estimated from CSAs, normalised to body weight |
| Cowan et al., 2019 [19] | Manual | Full |
3D-DOCTOR (Able Software Corp.) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Dorado 2020 et al., 2020 [51] | Manual | Full |
Slice O’matic (V 4.3, Tomovision Inc) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Flack et al., 2012 [73] | Semi- automatic |
Full (excl. fat) |
OsiriX package (V 2.7.5) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Franettovich Smith et al., 2017 [135] | Manual | Full |
OsiriX package (V 5.7) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
|
Grimaldi et al., 2009a [23] Grimaldi et al., 2009b [24] |
Manual | Full |
Osiris package (V 4.19) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Handsfield et al.,2014 [105] | Manual | Full |
Software written in Matlab (The Math works Inc.) |
Estimated from CSAs with normalised to body mass & height |
| Homma et al., 2019 [107] | Manual | Full |
ZedHip (Lexi Co., Ltd.) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
|
Jaegers et al., 1992 [43] Jaegers et al., 1995[124] |
Manual | Full |
Obex (Cerebrum) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Koch et al., 2021 [26] | Manual | Partial |
ITK‐Snap Software (V 3.6) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Kubo et al., 2019 [126] | Manual | Full |
Osirix package (DICOM image analysis) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Loureiro et al., 2018 [76] | Semi-automatic | Full | Mimics | Estimated from CSAs |
| Makridis et al., 2014 [127] | Manual | Full | NR | Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Marcon et al., 2016 [89] | Semi-automatic | Full (excl. artifacts) |
Myrian 1 (Intrasense) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Mastenbrook et al., 2017 [128] | Semi-automatic | Full |
Analyze 11.0 (AnalyzeDirect, Inc.) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Miller et al., 2020 [50] | Manual | Full |
DICOM software (V 2.2.0, Horos) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness, normalised to body mass |
| Miokovic et al., 2011 [62] | Manual | Full |
ImageJ (V 1.38x) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Montefiori et al., 2020 [55] | Semi-automatic | Full |
Mimics (V 20.0, Materialise) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Reito et al., 2016 [131] | Manual | NR | NR | “Muscle atrophy was assessed as a decrease in volume and the appearance of fatty change relative to the contralateral, non-operated side.” |
| Rothwell et al., 2019 [132] | Manual | Full |
OsiriX Lite (V 8.0.1, Pixmeo) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness, normalised to body mass & height |
| Sakamaki et al., 2011 [133] | Manual | Full | NR | Estimated from CSAs, multiplied slice thickness |
| Semciw et al., 2016 [63] | Manual | Full | Sante DICOM Editor (Santesoft) | Estimated from CSAs, multiplied slice thickness |
| Skorupska et al., 2016 [65] | Manual | Full |
ITK-SNAP (V 2.2.0) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Springer et al., 2012 [59] | Manual | Full |
Vitrea 2 (V 4.1.2.0) |
Estimated from CSAs |
| Sugisaki et al., 2018 [106] | Manual | Full |
OsiriX (V 2.4) |
Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness, normalised to body mass |
| Tran et al., 2021 [121] | Manual | Full | The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States | Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
| Winkler et al., 2018 [61] | Manual | Full |
PACS workstation OsiriX |
Estimated from CSAs |
|
Zacharias et al., 2016 [22] Zacharias et al., 2018 [21] |
Manual |
Full (excl. fat) |
Sante DICOM editor | Estimated from CSAs, multiplied by slice thickness |
CSA Cross Sectional Area, Excl. Excluding, GMax Gluteus Maximus, NR Not Reported, V Version