Identification of radiomic biomarkers in a set of four skeletal muscle groups on Dixon MRI of the NAKO MR study.

"the proposed framework will be made publicly available: https://github com/lab-midas/muscle_texture .; all codes of this study are made publicly available: https://github com/lab-midas/muscle_texture ."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateAll methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. All experimental protocols were approved by a named institutional and/or licensing committee. The NAKO study is advised by an ethics committee and is based on the following ethics: https://nako.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/NAKO_Ethik-Kodex_v2.0_2015-10-20.pdf. This retrospective study was approved by the local ethics committee (ethics committee of the medical faculty of the University of Tuebingen and the University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany). All NAKO participants gave written informed consent. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project number 428210203 / SPP 2177. This project was conducted with data from the German National Cohort (GNC) (https://www.nako.de). The GNC is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (project funding reference no. 01ER1301A/ B/C and 01ER1511D), federal states, and the Helmholtz Association, with additional financial support from the participating universities and institutes of the Leibniz Association."