INTERACTIVE CRANIOFACIAL NORMATIVE DATABASE

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的二十年里，颅面人体测量学在临床遗传学、口腔颌面和重建整形外科中得到了越来越多的应用。定量测量使得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福音。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。帕克斯的《头部和面部人体测量学》出版于1981年，在过去的20年里得到了扩展和更新，促进了这两项发展。这个颅面测量系统已经成为一个流行的标准参考，为北美提供了最广泛的规范数据库。但是，由于目前没有商业上可用的计算机化数据库，用户目前必须依靠繁琐的硬拷贝查找表，很少有机会使用变量的组合函数。

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.