A New Computer-aided Technique for Planning the Aesthetic Outcome of Plastic Surgery
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2008
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Václav Skala - UNION Agency
Abstract
Plastic surgery plays a major role in today health care. Planning plastic face surgery requires dealing with the
elusive concept of attractiveness for evaluating feasible beautification of a particular face. The existing
computer tools essentially allow to manually warp 2D images or 3D face scans, in order to produce images
simulating possible surgery outcomes. How to manipulate faces, as well as the evaluation of the results, are left
to the surgeon’s judgement. We propose a new quantitative approach able to automatically suggest effective
patient-specific improvements of facial attractiveness. The general idea is to compare the face of the patient
with a large database of attractive faces, excluding the facial feature to be improved. Then, the feature of the
faces more similar is applied, with a suitable morphing, to the face of the patient. In this paper we present a
first application of the general idea in the field of nose surgery. Aesthetically effective rhinoplasty is suggested
on the base of the entire face profile, a very important 2D feature for rating face attractiveness.
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plastická chirurgie, plastika nosu, profil obličeje, automatické zkrášlování
Citation
WSCG '2008: Communication Papers: The 16-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision in co-operation with EUROGRAPHICS: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, February 4 - 7, 2008, p. 183-190.