Facial asymmetry assessment in skeletal Class III patients with spatially-dense geometric morphometrics. Y Fan, W He, G Chen, G Song, H Matthews, P Claes, R Jiang, T Xu.

Soft tissue asymmetry is predominately presented in the lower-third of the face in skeletal Class III patients and with various variations on other facial anatomical regions. Morphometric techniques and computer intensive analysis have allowed sophisticated quantification and visualization of the pointwise asymmetry on the full face.

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Beyond BMI for self-estimates of body size and shape: A new method for developing stimuli correctly calibrated for body composition. N Maalin, S Mohamed, RSS Kramer, et al.

A potential contributory factor to the rise in obesity is the failure of people to recognise weight gain. If we, or our health services, cannot accurately index body size, then the appropriate compensatory behaviours which might reduce weight will not be undertaken.

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Posture-Invariant 3D Human Hand Statistical Shape Model. Y Yang, T Yuan, T Huysmans, WS Elkhuizen, F Tajdari, Y Song.

Date: June 2021. Source: ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), 21(3): 031006. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4049445. Research Summary: A high-fidelity digital representation of the human body is a key enabler for integrating humans into a digital twin, and the hand is a particularly challenging part of the body to model due to posture deviations…

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An exploratory study of bust measurements during running using 4D scanning technology. J Pei, L Griffin, SP Ashdown, J Fan, B Juhnke, C Curry.

The purpose of this research was to introduce the use of 4D scanning technology to understand breast shape in motion. Twenty-six female participants who identified themselves as wearing Missy Size 18 were recruited for scanning. Three most common bust measurements were tracked in dynamic states and compared with the static state.

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Designing and utilizing 3D-printed skin incision guides during the first Dutch bilateral hand-arm transplantation. S Hummelink, AS Kruit, SER Hovius, DJO Ulrich.

This study believes 3D printed templates usage increases time efficiency, improves the match of skin flaps in donor and recipient arms, and allows us to control the amount of skin surplus without skin flap tip necrosis. In these procedures where time is of the essence, this team believes pre-operative planning is imperative for its success.

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