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A Survey of Automatic Methods for Nutritional Assessment

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Pith's one-line read Emerging computer science technologies are set to heavily impact nutritional assessment by enabling more objective data collection.

desk verdict This is a basic survey that groups existing academic and commercial tools for nutrition tracking but introduces no new methods or data. read the letter →

arxiv 1907.07245 v1 pith:5BSEC2OJ submitted 2019-07-09 cs.CY

Lars Brenna , H{aa}vard D. Johansen , Dag Johansen This is my paper
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keywords nutritionalassessmentautomaticmethodswearabledevicesquantifiedselfunder-reportingsurveycomputersciencetechnologiesbiometriclogging
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The reading

The paper establishes that nutritional assessment, the process of collecting and interpreting nutrition information to address health issues, can benefit from new technologies even though traditional methods have not changed much. It highlights that current data collection approaches suffer from under-reporting and points to wearable biometric devices and the Quantified Self movement as sources of objective alternatives. The survey reviews and categorizes both academic and commercial systems to map out these promising approaches. A reader would care because better nutritional data supports improved decisions about diet-related health problems.

What carries the argument

Categorization of academic and commercial systems that use wearable biometric logging devices and related technologies for objective nutritional data collection.

What would settle it

Evidence from a follow-up study or updated review showing that traditional nutritional assessment methods have changed substantially in the last twenty years or exhibit little under-reporting.

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Core claim

Nutritional assessment is about to be heavily impacted by emerging computer science technologies, and this survey provides an overview of promising technology approaches supporting nutritional assessment by reviewing and categorizing both academic and commercial systems.

Load-bearing premise

Traditional data collection methods have remained largely unchanged for two decades and suffer from under-reporting issues that new technologies can address.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper is a survey reviewing and categorizing both academic and commercial systems for automatic nutritional assessment. It is motivated by the claim that traditional data collection methods have remained largely unchanged for two decades and suffer from under-reporting, while new technologies associated with the Quantified Self movement are poised to heavily impact the field.

Significance. If the categorization is systematic and the coverage of systems is representative, the survey could provide a useful reference point for researchers working at the intersection of nutrition and computer science. The paper does not introduce new methods, data, or predictions, so its contribution rests entirely on the quality and completeness of the literature overview.

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  1. Abstract: The claims that 'methods for collecting data are largely unchanged over the past two decades' and that these methods 'have issues that cause under-reporting' are presented as established facts without any supporting citations or data. These statements form the primary motivation for the survey and therefore require explicit references.
  2. The manuscript provides no description of the search strategy, databases queried, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or time frame used to select the academic and commercial systems that are reviewed and categorized. For a survey paper, the absence of a methods section undermines the ability to assess whether the overview is comprehensive or biased toward particular approaches.

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We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive comments. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the survey.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: The claims that 'methods for collecting data are largely unchanged over the past two decades' and that these methods 'have issues that cause under-reporting' are presented as established facts without any supporting citations or data. These statements form the primary motivation for the survey and therefore require explicit references.

    Authors: We agree that these motivational claims require supporting citations to be presented as established facts. In the revised manuscript, we will add explicit references to prior work documenting the stability of traditional dietary assessment methods over the past two decades and the well-known issues of under-reporting associated with self-report techniques such as food frequency questionnaires and 24-hour recalls. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The manuscript provides no description of the search strategy, databases queried, inclusion/exclusion criteria, or time frame used to select the academic and commercial systems that are reviewed and categorized. For a survey paper, the absence of a methods section undermines the ability to assess whether the overview is comprehensive or biased toward particular approaches.

    Authors: We acknowledge that a clear description of the literature search process is important for a survey paper to allow readers to evaluate coverage and potential bias. We will add a new 'Methods' section that details the databases queried (including academic repositories and commercial product searches), search keywords and terms, inclusion and exclusion criteria for both academic publications and commercial systems, and the time period covered by the review. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; survey paper with no derivations or predictions

full rationale

This is a literature review surveying academic and commercial systems for nutritional assessment. It advances no novel empirical claims, mathematical derivations, predictions, fitted parameters, or uniqueness theorems. Background statements on traditional methods serve as motivation only and are not load-bearing for any core result. No self-citation chains or ansatzes are invoked to justify new findings. The paper is self-contained as a categorization of existing work.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 0 assumptions · 0 invented entities

This is a survey paper with no new scientific claims, derivations, or models; the abstract introduces no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities.

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read the original abstract

Nutritional assessment is key in order to make decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition related health issues that affect an individual. The systematic process of collecting and interpreting relevant nutrition information, however, is still in its technological infancy. Despite technological advances in storage and analysis of nutritional data, methods for collecting data are largely unchanged over the past two decades. It is well documented that these methods have issues that cause under-reporting. Meanwhile, new developments in wearable biometric logging devices have seen increased traction among individuals. This is sometimes referred to as the Quantified Self movement. One part of this movement is the development of technological means for objectively collecting nutritional data. Nutritional assessment, however, is about to be heavily impacted by emerging computer science technologies, and this survey provides an overview of promising technology approaches supporting nutritional assessment. Both academic and commercial systems are reviewed and categorized.

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Figure 1. A sample pen-and-paper FFQ (Source: The European Prospective Investigation of Cancer (EPIC), h‚p://www.srl.cam.ac.uk/epic/) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. A web-based FFQ (Source: [44]). spans. Œe method is still considered to collect an acceptably detailed insight into the nutritional intake of an individual over a longer period of time. 24-Hour Recall (24HR). Œe 24HR method is based on structured interviews where subjects are asked about their intake of food and beverages over the previous 24 hours, or from morning to midnight on the previous day. Œe interviewer ask… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. A sample pen-and-paper 7 day food record form (Source: The European Prospective Investigation of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Kitrics digital food scale with food packaging label showing macro nutrients and sodium. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Fitbit API JSON data format for food record entries, as of April 2018. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png]
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Screenshot from a mobile food record prototype using images to record meals. The pictures are [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png]
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Figure 7. Figure 7: The Wellnavi hand-held personal assistant for nutritional assessment (Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png]

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