BODY TYPER

The LHA Body typer is an interactive app that enables interested users to determine their body type by manual measuring of few body lengths and girths. Additionally, data derived from body scanner devices can be uploaded for automatic body type annotation with regard to the body shapes identified in the Leipzig population.

PUBLICATIONS
  • Frenzel A, Binder H, Walter N, Wirkner K, Loeffler M, Loeffler-Wirth H. The aging human body shape. npj Aging and Mechanisms of Disease 2020 2020/03/24; 6(1): 5.
  • Loeffler-Wirth H, Vogel M, Kirsten T, Glock F, Poulain T, Körner A, et al. Body typing of children and adolescents using 3D-body scanning. PLOS one 2017; 12(10): e0186881.
  • Löffler-Wirth H, Willscher E, Ahnert P, Wirkner K, Engel C, Loeffler M, et al. Novel Anthropometry Based on 3D-Bodyscans Applied to a Large Population Based Cohort. PLOS one 2016; 11(7): e0159887.