Validity and intraobserver reliability of three-dimensional scanning compared with conventional anthropometry for children and adolescents from a population-based cohort study

Glock, Fabian; Vogel, Mandy; Naumann, Stephanie; Kuehnapfel, Andreas; Scholz, Markus; Hiemisch, Andreas; Kirsten, Toralf; Rieger, Kristin; Koerner, Antje; Loeffler, Markus; Kieß, Wieland

doi:10.1038/pr.2016.274

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“…Other methods, such as dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and bioelectrical impedance analysis, represent interesting options of estimating "internal" tissue distribution in the human body. Threedimensional (3D) whole-body laser scanning provides another promising technique for evaluating "external" body shape by granting the opportunity to assess dozens of anthropological body measures at once with high accuracy and within only a few seconds of time 9 . Body scanning is utilized in medical application, for example, for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery 10,11 , and increasingly in health research to study anthropometry of hundreds to thousands of participants in epidemiological cohort studies 9,12 to assess their possible relevance for health risk prediction.…”

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The aging human body shape

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Body shape and composition are heterogeneous among humans with possible impact for health. Anthropometric methods and data are needed to better describe the diversity of the human body in human populations, its age dependence, and associations with health risk. We applied whole-body laser scanning to a cohort of 8499 women and men of age 40-80 years within the frame of the LIFE (Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases) study aimed at discovering health risk in a middle European urban population. Body scanning delivers multidimensional anthropometric data, which were further processed by machine learning to stratify the participants into body types. We here applied this body typing concept to describe the diversity of body shapes in an aging population and its association with physical activity and selected health and lifestyle factors. We find that aging results in similar reshaping of female and male bodies despite the large diversity of body types observed in the study. Slim body shapes remain slim and partly tend to become even more lean and fragile, while obese body shapes remain obese. Female body shapes change more strongly than male ones. The incidence of the different body types changes with characteristic Life Course trajectories. Physical activity is inversely related to the body mass index and decreases with age, while self-reported incidence for myocardial infarction shows overall the inverse trend. We discuss health risks factors in the context of body shape and its relation to obesity. Body typing opens options for personalized anthropometry to better estimate health risk in epidemiological research and future clinical applications.

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“…Beside widespread commercial applications like apparel design and ergonomics [1,2], body scanning is increasingly utilized in medial context, e.g. for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery [3,4], and recently in medical and health research to study anthropometry of hundreds to thousands of participants in large cohort studies with high accuracy [5,6]. These new and amended data are expected to improve the diagnostics of many diseases, however, current applications usually don't consider the whole information provided by the set of body measures and, instead, use only a small part of them to estimate simple body indices such as body mass index (BMI) or waist-to-hip circumference ratio (WtH) [7][8][9][10].…”

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Exploration of Human Ageing by 3D-Laser Scanning Anthropometry

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Proceedings of 3DBODY.TECH 2017 - 8th International Conference and Exhibition On 3D Body Scanning and Processing Technologies,

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Three-dimensional whole body scanning is an emerging technology for anthropometric assessment in epidemiological studies. We recently analysed 3D whole body scanning data of nearly 10,000 participants collected from the adult population of Leipzig. We were able to aggregate the body measures provided by the scanner into meta-measures, each representing one relevant dimension of the body shape, and to identify distinguishable clusters of body shapes. In the next step, we now study specifics of the so-called body types upon ageing to understand how meta-measures change during ageing. Further we investigate the distribution of participants in the body types with regard to stratification by age and gender. It becomes clear, that age significantly influences body shape, embodied by characteristic changes of the meta-measures representing systematic shifts in body proportions upon ageing, and by a marked developmental trajectory of body typing.

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“…Concordance correlation coefficients (CCCs) were calculated to assess validity. Overall CCCs (OCCCs) were used to analyze intraobserver reliability (1).…”

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“…At the same time, neck and thigh circumference showed a "good" (CCC ⩾ 0.7) and head circumference a "low" (CCCo0.5; flipping a coin!) degree of concordance over the complete study population (1). They thus concluded that scanning can be used in an epidemiologic setting with children and adolescents, but some measurements should be considered with caution due to reduced agreement with conventional anthropometry (1).…”

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“…degree of concordance over the complete study population (1). They thus concluded that scanning can be used in an epidemiologic setting with children and adolescents, but some measurements should be considered with caution due to reduced agreement with conventional anthropometry (1). Such conclusion may be misleading because of not taking into account the abovementioned statistical and methodological issues.…”

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