INTERACTIVE CRANIOFACIAL NORMATIVE DATABASE

描述（申请人提供）：在过去的二十年里，颅面人体测量在临床遗传学、口腔颌面和重建整形外科中的应用越来越多。定量测量使畸形特征的诊断既客观又可靠，这对遗传学家和外科医生都是一个布恩。此外，手术计划也受益于这些指标，这些指标在评估术后成功方面也很有用。这两个发展都促进了Parkas的头和脸的人体测量的出版，该出版物首次出现在1981年，并在过去20年中得到了扩展和更新。这个颅面测量系统已成为一个流行的标准参考，提供了最广泛的规范数据库现存的北美。然而，由于目前没有商业上可用的计算机化数据库，因此用户目前必须依赖繁琐的硬拷贝查找表，而很少有机会获得变量的组合函数。 我们在这个STTR的目标是使这些规范的使用更加用户友好的创建一个基于计算机的交互式颅面测量数据库。该产品的工作名称为FaceValue，旨在（1）使用菜单驱动、基于地标的图形用户界面，方便随时访问以患者人口统计为条件的查找表;（2）允许计算患者的标准化测量，包括创建当前不可用但将由用户配置的功能;（3）生成人体测量协议报告;以及（4）导出的（例如，标准化）的分数到数据库进行记录和统计分析。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the last two decades, craniofacial anthropometry has found increasing application in clinical genetics and oral maxillofacial and reconstructive plastic surgery. Quantitative measurements have rendered the diagnosis of dysmorphic features both objective and reliable, a boon to geneticists and surgeons alike. Also, surgical planning has benefited from these metrics which also are useful in the assessment of post-operative success. Both of these developments have been facilitated by the publication of Parkas' Anthropometry of the Head and Face, which first appeared in 1981 and which has been expanded and updated over the last 20 years. This craniofacial surface measurement system has become a popular standard reference, providing the most extensive normative database extant for North America. However, because there is no commercially available computerized database at the present, it is currently necessary for the user to rely on cumbersome hard-copy look-up tables with little access to combined functions of variables. Our objective within this STTR is to make the use of these norms more user-friendly by creating a computer-based interactive craniofacial measurement database for them. This product, with a working title of FaceValue, is designed to (1) facilitate ready access to look-up tables conditioned on patient demographics, using a menu-driven, landmark-based graphic user interface; (2) permit computation of standardized measures for patients, including the creation of functions not currently available but which will be configured by the user; (3) generate reports for anthropometric protocols; and (4) export derived (e.g., standardized) scores to databases for documentation and statistical analysis.