Reconstruction after mastectomy is an important milestone for many women treated for breast cancer. However, because many surgeons only offer their preferred method of reconstruction, it is not clear which approach women would choose if offered a genuine choice. METHODS Between 1998 and 2010, the breast reconstruction service at a major Australian teaching hospital was staffed by a single pla...

The therapeutic objectives in wounds of the face are restoration of function and reduction of disfigurement. The treatment of war injuries of the face may be divided into three types: 1) primary complete repair, 2) temporary treatment, 3) reconstruction. Primary complete treatment is indicated for fresh wounds where tissue loss is minimal. Temporary treatment should be used for infected or badl...

Face hallucination, which is the task of generating a highresolution face image from a low-resolution input image, is a well-studied problem that is useful in widespread application areas. Face hallucination is particularly challenging when the input face resolution is very low (e.g., 10×12 pixels) and/or the image is captured in an uncontrolled setting with large pose and illumination variatio...

Facial surgeons require a vast amount of knowledge about the human face, in order to decide how to reconstruct an injured or traumatized part. Does this knowledge consist only of explicit notions about face anatomy, or is there also an implicit knowledge of the normal appearance of a face? And if the answer to the latter question is affirmative, is there a way for a computer to automatically le...

The “interpretation through synthesis” approach to analyze face images, particularly Active Appearance Models (AAMs) method, has become one of the most successful face modeling approaches over the last two decades. AAM models have ability to represent face images through synthesis using a controllable parameterized Principal Component Analysis (PCA) model. However, the accuracy and robustness o...

The computer-aided craniofacial reconstruction (CFR) technique has been widely used in the fields of criminal investigation, archaeology, anthropology and cosmetic surgery. The evaluation of craniofacial reconstruction results is important for improving the effect of craniofacial reconstruction. Here, we used the sparse principal component analysis (SPCA) method to evaluate the similarity betwe...

3D face reconstruction from a single image is challenging problem, especially under partial occlusions and extreme poses. This because the uncertainty of estimated 2D landmarks will affect quality reconstruction. In this paper, we propose novel joint optimization method to adaptively reconstruct shapes image, which combines depths solve uncertain detections invisible landmarks. The strategy our...