INTERACTIVE CRANIOFACIAL NORMATIVE DATABASE

描述(申请人提供)：在过去的二十年里，颅面人体测量学在临床遗传学和口腔颌面部整形外科中得到了越来越多的应用。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种恩惠。此外，手术计划也受益于这些指标，这些指标在评估手术后的成功方面也很有用。这两项发展都得益于帕卡斯的《头部和面部人体测量学》的出版，这本书最早出现在1981年，在过去20年里得到了扩展和更新。这个颅面表面测量系统已经成为一个流行的标准参考，为北美提供了现存最广泛的标准化数据库。然而，由于目前没有商业上可用的计算机化数据库，用户目前有必要依赖繁琐的硬拷贝查询表，几乎不能访问变量的组合函数。 我们的目标是通过创建一个基于计算机的交互式颅面测量数据库，使这些标准的使用更加人性化。该产品的暂定名称为FaceValue，旨在(1)使用菜单驱动的、基于里程碑的图形用户界面，便于随时访问根据患者人口统计条件的查询表；(2)允许计算患者的标准化测量，包括创建目前不可用但将由用户配置的功能；(3)生成人体测量协议的报告；以及(4)将导出(例如，标准化)分数导出到数据库，用于文档和统计分析。

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.