Análise antropométrica semiautomática em imersão para pesquisa e diagnóstico clínico de síndromes dismórficas

Abstract

The understanding of facial morphology, either by visualization or by anthropometry, is an important issue for the clinical diagnosis and the study of dysmorphic syndromes. When it is not possible to have access to the patient, 2D photographs can be used as a means of visualization and anthropometric analysis, although limited to a single point of view per image and the loss of the depth dimension, which does not occur in 3D images. This work proposes a model of digital anthropometry and immersive analysis of 3D models aiming to aid the research and clinical diagnosis of dysmorphic syndromes. A total of 59 children affected by Congenital Zika were analyzed. 3D models of the head and 13 craniofacial anthropometric measurements of each patient were collected using two approaches, the traditional manual method with the use of the caliper and the computational method proposed in this study. The average difference of the measurements of the proposed method in relation to the traditional method was below 1mm for most of the measures considered, with the largest average difference being close to 3mm. When comparing both, the proposed method presented results compatible with the traditional one also presenting some advantages over manual anthropometry.