Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Diagnosis of acromegaly is often delayed up to 10 years after disease onset despite obvious visual changes, bone and soft-tissue deformities. We hypothesized that a reduced sense of body perception in acromegaly, possibly mediated by psychiatric or cognitive alterations, might contribute to the delayed initiation of a diagnostic work-up.Design: Cross-sectional study.Methods: We investigated perceived body image ...

Introduction: It has been shown that face classification software might help distinguishing between subjects with and without acromegaly on regular photographs. In this project, we investigated several aspects that will be necessary and helpful to bring this recognition method closer to clinical application.Methods: Face classification was based on nodes placed on frontal and side photographs of individuals and analysis the underlying texture and geometr...