Search for dissertations about: "Body Image"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1133 swedish dissertations containing the words Body Image.
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1. Image Processing and Analysis Methods for Biomedical Applications
Abstract : With new technologies and developments medical images can be acquired more quickly and at a larger scale than ever before. However, increased amount of data induces an overhead in the human labour needed for its inspection and analysis. READ MORE
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2. Body Image in Early Adolescence
Abstract : This thesis deals with body image during a period in life marked by rapid physical and psychological change – early adolescence. Two empirical studies on early adolescents’ body esteem, a concept referring to the self-evaluative dimension of body image, are presented. READ MORE
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3. Efficient GPU-based Image Registration : for Detailed Large-Scale Whole-body Analysis
Abstract : Imaging has become an important aspect of medicine, enabling visualization of internals in a non-invasive manner. The rapid advancement and adoption of imaging techniques have led to a demand for tools able to take advantage of the information that is produced. READ MORE
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4. Body image in patients with residual eating disorder symptoms : treatment effects of acceptance and commitment therapy and participants' reflections
Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate an acceptance and commitment (ACT) group intervention targeting body image in patients with residual eating disorder (ED) symptoms, including treatment effects and participants’ reflections on body image and the intervention. Studies I, II and III are based on a randomized controlled trial including 99 patients that were randomized to the ACT intervention or to continue treatment as usual (TAU). READ MORE
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5. Becoming Image : Perspectives on Digital Culture, Fashion and Technofeminism
Abstract : Departing from a technofeminist perspective, Becoming Image, places the digital image in a broader context of modern and postmodern technological discourses and fashion. In four articles, the compilation dissertation expands a contemporary and imagistic tech discourse by questioning the ideology of ”masculinity”―specifically the idea of it as a historically male domain. READ MORE