Several research fields like forensic and orthodontics, use facial anthropometric distances between a set of pairs of facial standard landmarks. There are tens of attempts to automatize the measurement process using 2D and 3D approaches. However, they still suffer of three main drawbacks: human manual intervention to fix the facial landmarks, physical markers placed on the face and required tim...

Background The development of an anthropometric craniofacial database is a necessary multidisciplinary proposal. Aim The aim of this study was to establish facial anthropometric norms and to investigate into sexual dimorphism in facial variables among Kosovo Albanian adults. Materials and Methods The sample included 204 students of Dental School, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pristina....

The present study was initiated to derive an indirect method for estimating body fat mass (BFM) and to evaluate the correlation between indirect anthropometric techniques for this estimation and to examine the relation of these parameters and of IQ to age of menarche. A total of 578 adolescent girls of ten junior high schools in five educational districts of Mashhad, participated in a cros...

The scope of this article is to assess the suitability of the measurement techniques and the cutoff points of anthropometric indicators of abdominal obesity adopted in Brazil, and summarize the results. This involves a review of the literature published from 1990 to 2010 and indexed in the MEDLINE, LILACS and SciELO databases. The inclusion criteria for articles were: original research articles...