“…CT and MRI or ultrasound are commonly administered screening modalities for various abdominal diseases both emergent or chronic ( Tanaka et al, 2006 ). This location of imaging harbors indicators including visceral fat, hepatic steatosis, and skeleton muscle, which are closely related to MetS ( Lin et al, 2021a ; Chou et al, 2021 ; Pickhardt et al, 2021 ; Wu and Park, 2021 ). Machine learning, especially deep learning methods, has been studied for fast automated quantification of different fat compartments, level of steatosis, and fat distribution ( Sun et al, 2020 ; Bhanu et al, 2021 ; Rhyou and Yoo, 2021 ).…”