Nice work! Another big user group of stuff like this is diabetics who need carb estimates to adjust insulin doses.
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#52The classification looks good, congrats!. Where did you get the million labeled images to train your classifier?
Wordnet! Got a list of URLs from there and then hit flikr with some python.
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#53Nice work! Another big user group of stuff like this is diabetics who need carb estimates to adjust insulin doses.
I earned my PhD in diabetes research at the Mayo clinic. My whole goal for this project is to cure that damned illness.
Aim high ...
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#54Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/
Its been contested in a few papers now that overweight people can outlive normal weight, according to these BMI subcategories. But I am not surprised that things can be fuzzy, since ultimately its a continuum.
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#55Is there a writeup about how you approached this? All I see are a couple of app store links.
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#56Is there a writeup about how you approached this? All I see are a couple of app store links.
Ive been meaning to make a blog for some time now, since my nonprofit also has some preliminary research results with the genetic basis of obesity. Just havent had the time really. It will happen though. These neural networks are amazing and worth sharing.
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#57Great work! I'd love to chat with you to help feed your data set outside of wordnet. I've been collecting my own data set where I breakdown the macros in images for anyone who sends me their meals.
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#58I think something like this could get really good at estimating calories too. I'm saying within +\- 50 calories.
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#59Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/
The finding that people with an "Overweight" BMI have a lower rate of all-cause mortality is consistent and has been called the "obesity paradox." A very interesting study came out this month that addressed it.[0] Basically, they did a prospective study of 55,000 (mostly elderly women) where they measured their body fat percentage directly using DEXA scans. It turns out that when you control for body fat percentage, it's actually better for all cause mortality to have the highest BMI category and the lowest body fat percentage. Of course, the measure "BMI after controlling for body fat percentage" is kind of unintuitive, since BMI is supposed to be a crappy proxy for body fat percentage. But basically, as long as your body fat percentage is low, being bigger is healthier than being smaller.
0: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2499472 (this paper used to be available, because I read the whole thing, but I guess it's paywalled now)
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#60Isn't it strange that in [1] the beginning of the "Normal" BMI has more risk of death than the beginning of the "Obese"? I'd even venture to say that the "Overweight" range has, in average, lower Mortality Risk than the "Normal". PS, another plus for the Metric System. The Imperial System form includes Feet+Inches, while the metric one only needs Centimeters for the height. [1] https://www.infino.me/join/
The finding that people with an "Overweight" BMI have a lower rate of all-cause mortality is consistent and has been called the "obesity paradox." A very interesting study came out this month that addressed it.[0] Basically, they did a prospective study of 55,000 (mostly elderly women) where they measured their body fat percentage directly using DEXA scans. It turns out that when you control for body fat percentage,…
Thanks for posting this! I wonder if part of this paradox is also explainable because people with high muscle mass will tip towards the high end of the scale.
Very cool!