Objectives. Body measurement plays a pivotal role not only in the diagnosis of disease but also in the classification of typology. Sasang constitutional medicine, which is one of the forms of Traditional Korean Medicine, is considered to be strongly associated with body shape. We attempted to determine whether a Sasang constitutional analytic tool based on body shape information (SCAT-B) could ...

Abstract A widespread pattern in vertebrate life-history evolution is for species to evolve towards either fast or slow life histories; however, the underlying causes of this remain unclear. Toothed whales (Odontoceti) are a diverse group with range body sizes and histories, making them an ideal model investigate potential drivers dichotomy. Using ancestral reconstruction, we identified that ce...

Most of the efforts concerning graphical representations of humans (Virtual Humans) have been focused on synthesizing geometry for static or animated shapes. The next step is to consider a human body not only as a 3D shape, but as an active semantic entity with features, functionalities, interaction skills, etc. In the framework of the AIM@SHAPE Network of Excellence we are currently working on...

In "imaging the biomechanical properties of tissues," a number of approaches analyze shear wave propagation initiated by a short radiation force push. Unfortunately, it has been experimentally observed that the displacement-versus-time curves for lossy tissues are rapidly damped and distorted in ways that can confound simple tracking approaches. This article addresses the propagation, decay and...

LoRRAiNE M. CHERRy,1"5 SUSAN M. CASE,2 JOSEPH G. KUNKEL,3 JEFF S. WYLES"4 AND ALLAN C. WILSON' 'Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 2Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 3Department of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 and 4Department of Biology, University of Houston, Hous...

The paper presents a method to estimate the detailed 3D body shape of a person even if heavy or loose clothing is worn. The approach is based on a space of human shapes, learned from a large database of registered body scans. Together with this database we use as input a 3D scan or model of the person wearing clothes and apply a fitting method, based on ICP (iterated closest point) registration...

If you really want to be smarter, reading can be one of the lots ways to evoke and realize. Many people who like reading will have more knowledge and experiences. Reading can be a way to gain information from economics, politics, science, fiction, literature, religion, and many others. As one of the part of book categories, body shape changes where are we always becomes the most wanted book. Ma...

Three-dimensional object shape is commonly represented in terms of deformations of a triangular mesh from an exemplar shape. Existing models, however, are based on a Euclidean representation of shape deformations. In contrast, we argue that shape has a manifold structure: For example, summing the shape deformations for two people does not necessarily yield a deformation corresponding to a valid...

High cardiovascular mortality is well documented in lean phenotypes exhibiting visceral fat accumulation. In contrast, corpulent phenotypes with predominantly subcutaneous fat accumulation display a surprisingly low mortality. The term 'obesity paradox' reflects the difficulty in understanding the biological mechanisms underlying these clinical observations. The allostatic load model of chronic...