Current Developments in Digital Quantitative Volume Estimation for the Optimisation of Dietary Assessment.

ABSTRACT: Obesity is a global health problem with wide-reaching economic and social implications. Nutrition surveillance systems are essential to understanding and addressing poor dietary practices. However, diets are incredibly diverse across populations and an accurate diagnosis of individualized nutritional issues is challenging. Current tools used in dietary assessment are cumbersome for users, and are only able to provide approximations of dietary information. Given the need for technological innovation, this paper reviews various novel digital methods for food volume estimation and explores the potential for adopting such technology in the Southeast Asian context. We discuss the current approaches to dietary assessment, as well as the potential opportunities that digital health can offer to th

SUBMITTER: Tay W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7231293 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature