# TotalSegmentator "skin segmentation"

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** segmentation\
**Created:** [August 17, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198 "2023-08-17T17:19:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sergio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sergio](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sergio)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198/1 "2023-08-17T17:19:34Z")

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Hi,

I could see that TotalSegmentator has the capability of segment the “skin” using the segmentation task “Body” mode. I could see that is creating the “skin.nii.gz” file but 3D Slicer is not loading it as a segment. Only loads “Body\_trunc” and “Body\_extremities”.

Do you know any solution?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![rbumm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rbumm/32/9404_2.png) [@rbumm](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/rbumm)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198/2 "2023-08-17T18:29:01Z")

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Skin is in the working pipeline.  
Stay tuned.

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**Author:** ![rbumm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/rbumm/32/9404_2.png) [@rbumm](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/rbumm)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198/3 "2023-08-17T18:33:42Z")

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> [@Sergio](#):
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> skin.nii.gz

Have you tried ti load that file into Slicer? Does it produce something skinny ? 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sergio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sergio](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Sergio)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/totalsegmentator-skin-segmentation/31198/4 "2023-08-17T18:44:12Z")

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Thanks for the information Rudolf. No, in fact I could not find the file “skin.nii.gz” but I could see that the TotalSegmentator(TS) command window indicates that TS is creating this file. However, I think the file is not being converted to segment node.