# How to segment muscle in TotalSegmentator

**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-segment-muscle-in-totalsegmentator/29425
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** segmentation
**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-segment-muscle-in-totalsegmentator/29425 "2023-05-12T09:51:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![jay1987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jay1987/32/16183_2.png) [@jay1987](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jay1987)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2023, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-segment-muscle-in-totalsegmentator/29425/1 "2023-05-12T09:51:19Z")

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i use total segmentator to segment ct , the result is  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/8/c/8cb9f4899e25bf6e6f1147c98e66fff936de9e75.jpeg)

**the doctor want to segment the muscule into the red area and the yellow area**

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/6/4/64e2b099b7ee9592ea42990ca60b31193e3f4be0.jpeg)

use total segmentator seems can’t Meeting the needs of doctors(Maybe the steps I used were incorrect) , Is there any way to meet the needs of doctors?

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### Author: ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-segment-muscle-in-totalsegmentator/29425/2 "2023-05-12T19:03:08Z")

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I don’t know if there are any models available yet for this case. Maybe someone can speak up if they know of any.

As discussed in [this thread](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/anyone-know-how-to-read-analyze-objectmap-files/29074/7) I’m hoping we’ll be able to make a MONAI Label or nnU-Net model based on some representative segmentations, but that’s still research.

If anyone has lots of ground truth segmentations they want to make available that could help.

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### Author: ![jay1987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jay1987/32/16183_2.png) [@jay1987](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jay1987)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-segment-muscle-in-totalsegmentator/29425/3 "2023-05-13T13:59:22Z")

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thank you pieper,maybe MONAI label is a good choice
