Quantifying body shape for diagnosis and monitoring. Prof Ross Sanders, Faculty of Health Sciences

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Quantifying Body Shape for Diagnosis and Monitoring Professor Ross Sanders and Chuang-Yuan Chiu Exercise and Sport Science, Faculty of Health Sciences

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Quantifying Body Shape for Diagnosis and

Monitoring

Professor Ross Sanders and Chuang-Yuan Chiu

Exercise and Sport Science, Faculty of Health

Sciences

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Importance of Quantifying Body Shape

• Obesity

• Diabetes

• Cardiovascular

disease

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Importance of Quantifying Body Shape

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Current Methods

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Our New Method

or

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Tracking the Progress

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Application

• Research

• Sports training

• Self monitoring

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Summary• Quantification of body shape is important for

diagnosing and monitoring.

• Current solutions have some limitations in

application.

• Our ‘user friendly’ method is being developed

to understanding body shape easily.

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Thank you

• Question?