How Camera-to-Subject Distance and Height Affect Breast Measurement and Follow-Up Assessment in Plastic Surgery

• Published in: Aesthetic plastic surgery Vol. 48; no. 7; pp. 1487 - 1499
• Main Authors: Xie, Jiangmiao, Zhang, Wenchao, Yang, Elan, Yu, Nanze, Xia, Zenan, Liu, Xiaoli, Xie, Yaning, Chen, Sichao, Zeng, Ang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Breast - anatomy & histology; Breast - surgery; Cameras; Esthetics; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Mammaplasty - methods; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Morphology; Original Article; Otorhinolaryngology; Photography; Photography - instrumentation; Photography - methods; Plastic Surgery; Surgery, Plastic - methods; Young Adult; Medical photography; Breast measurement; Camera-to-subject distance; Breast morphology distortion; Photographic height

Background Due to several factors that affect photograph quality, bias is inevitably present in two-dimensional (2D) breast photography. The principal variables affecting image performance at a fixed focus length are the distance between the camera and the subjects and the photography angles. Object...