We propose a novel approach to annotating weakly labelled data. In contrast to many existing approaches that perform annotation by seeking clusters of self-similar exemplars (minimising intra-class variance), we perform image annotation by selecting exemplars that have never occurred before in the much larger, and strongly annotated, negative training set (maximising inter-class variance). Comp...

Autobiographical memory (AM) comprises representation of both specific (episodic) and generic (semantic) personal information. Depression is characterized by a shift from episodic to semantic AM retrieval. According to theoretical models, this process ("overgeneralization"), would be linked to reduced executive resources. Moreover, "overgeneral" memories, accompanied by a negativity bias in dep...

BACKGROUND Body dissatisfaction is common among both females and males. Dissatisfaction with the body is a risk factor both for onset of eating disorders and for abuse of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS). Few studies have however investigated if there are other similarities in respect to self-image or psychiatric symptoms between clinical samples of eating disordered males and males in treatm...

background self-esteem is a stable sense of personal worthiness. there is insufficient evidence from the available research to fully determine the relationship between self-esteem and early trauma. objectives this is a correlational study aims to investigate the relationship between early traumas as a predictor of negative self-esteem by controlling the effect of maladaptive schemas in 11-13 ye...

background: most previous research has focused on polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) characteristics and their association with psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depression. objective: in the present study, our aim was to study whether pcos characteristics are associated with several aspects of psychological well-being namely self-esteem and body satisfaction. materials and methods: th...

background drop-out (discontinuing treatment after the first visit) is one of the main causes of failure in obesity treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the pattern of drop-out in overweight or obese outpatients in ahvaz, iran. material and methods a total of 575 overweight or obese individuals (female: 469, male: 106) aged 18 – 65 attending an outpatient dietician office for the...

Objective: Binge eating disorder is associated with problems in interpersonal and occupational relationships, quality of life, and sometimes weight gain. Many factors affect the formation of these disorder symptoms. The current study examined the relationship between body image victimization experiences and the severity of binge eating symptoms mediated by body image shame and self-criticism. ...

self-affine maps were successfully used for edge detection, image segmentation, and contour extraction. they belong to the general category of patch-based methods. particularly, each self-affine map is defined by one pair of patches in the image domain. by minimizing the difference between these patches, the optimal translation vector of the self-affine map is obtained. almost all image process...

abstract introduction: eating disorders and body-image disturbances are of the most prevalent and disabling clinical complications that adolescent girls and young women develop. from the causes which effectively contribute to body dissatisfaction and eating pathology, is considered to be internalization of thin-ideal. this study aims to determine the correlations between thin-ideal internalizat...