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Manual outlining of pancreatic subregions is tedious, time-consuming, and prone to subjective inconsistency. This paper presents a multistage anatomy-guided framework for accurate and automatic 3D segmentation of pancreatic subregions in CT images. Using the delineated pancreas, two soft-label maps were estimated for subregional segmentation\u2014one by training a fully supervised na\u00efve Bayes model that considers the length and volumetric proportions of each subregional structure based on their anatomical arrangement, and the other by using the conventional deep learning U-Net architecture for 3D segmentation. The U-Net model then estimates the joint probability of the two maps and performs optimal segmentation of subregions. Model performance was assessed using three datasets of contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scans: one public NIH dataset of the healthy pancreas, and two datasets D1 and D2 (one for each of pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreas). The model demonstrated excellent performance during the multifold cross-validation using the NIH dataset, and external validation using D1 and D2. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first automated model for the segmentation of pancreatic subregions in CT images. 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