A computer-based method for the assessment of body-image distortions in anorexia-nervosa patients.

A computer-based method for the assessment of body-image distortions in anorexia-nervosa patients.

A computer-based method for the assessment of body-image distortions in anorexia nervosa and other eating-disorder patients is presented in this paper. At the core of the method is a realistic pictorial simulation of lifelike weight changes, applied to a real source image of the patient. The patient...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Transactions on information technology in biomedicine 5, 4 (2001).
Main Author: Harari, D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anorexia nervosa patients.
Body image distortion assessment.
Body shapes.
Clinical validation phase.
Cognitive distortion.
Computer-based method.
Eating-disorder patients.
Graphical user interface.
Lifelike weight changes.
Realistic pictorial simulation.
Self-perceived appearance.
Virtual fattening.
Virtual slimming.