As stated by Johnson [Joh04], the visualization of uncertainty remains one of the major challenges for the visualization community. To achieve this, we need to understand and develop methods that allow us not only to consider uncertainty as an extra variable within the visualization process, but to treat it as an integral part. In this paper, we take contouring, one of the most widely used visu...

BACKGROUND Patient selection is key to obtaining a successful outcome after nonablative monopolar radiofrequency (NMRF) treatments to the forehead, face, and neck. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to discover at baseline from patient demographics, skin and fat characteristics, measurable degrees of tissue mobility and photoaging, any predictors of a positive result under a standardized...

We show how to extract a contour line (or isosurface) from quadratic elements—specifically from quadratic triangles and tetrahedra. We also devise how to transform the resulting contour line (or surface) into a quartic curve (or surface) based on a curved-triangle (curved-tetrahedron) mapping. A contour in a bivariate quadratic function defined over a triangle in parameter space is a conic sect...

Several investigations have recently suggested the existence of a correlation between the dose received by the penile bulb (PB) and the risk of erectile dysfunction (ED) after radical radiotherapy for clinically localized prostate carcinoma. A prospective multi-Institute study (DUE-01) was implemented with the aim to assess the predictive parameters of ED. Previously, an evaluation of inter-obs...

Noninvasive body contouring is perhaps one of the most alluring areas of esthetic surgery today. This article discusses current noninvasive body-contouring modalities, including suction massage devices, radiofrequency energy, high-frequency focused ultrasound, cryolipolysis, and low-level light laser therapy devices. It also discusses imminent technologies awaiting approval by the Food and Drug...

INTRODUCTION: Asian faces generally are wider and flatter than Caucasian’s. So, facial bone contouring procedures, which are malar and mandibular angle reduction surgeries, are particularly popular in Asia. After that, one of the potential consequences is soft tissue drooping in cheek or jowl.1, 2Patient with soft tissue drooping looks old and gloomy. Even though it has been increasing in popul...

SUMMARY Since Illouz's presentation of a technique for lipoplasty at the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, liposuction has become one of the most commonly performed aesthetic surgery procedures. The evolution of liposuction has seen refinements in technique and improvement of patient safety-related standards of care. Based on long-term experienc...

We present a method for calculating the boundary of objects from Discrete Indicator Functions that store 2material volume fractions with a high degree of accuracy. Although Marching Cubes and its derivatives are effective methods for calculating contours of functions sampled over discrete grids, these methods perform poorly when contouring non-smooth functions such as Discrete Indicator Functio...