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Ying Zhang

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Matt Wilson

February 26, 2017

The Dark Side of Plastic Surgery

Cosmetic plastic surgery becomes extremely common presently due to its affordability and

advanced technology. Although the popularization of plastic surgery does benefit people with better

looks, it also causes problems in certain aspects. Psychiatrists verify that plastic surgery may cause

psychiatric issue on people and thus they look for cure solution to protect people mental health. On

the other hand, the technology of plastic surgery brings challenges to facial recognition system so

that computer scientists work on technology upgradation to ensure the system always functions to

represents the reality. Researchers from both disciplines try to solve the problems posted by plastic

surgery, but the way they organize researches is utterly different. Psychiatrists reach to their

solutions through case study and medical experiment while computer scientists improve the

previous weakness in technology by creating new algorithms and repeating system test.

Psychiatry is a type of medical specialty that focus on the diagnosis, preventions, study and

treatment of peoples mental disorders. Researchers from this field present the process of their

works with a logical organization so that they can get the solution for peoples mental illness step

by step efficiently.

For the first step, authors study the psychiatric issue examples through literature records and

then analyzing these works to find out patterns inside. In the peer review journal Psychiatric Issue

of Plastic Surgery, the authors William Leif Ericks and Stephen Bates Billick start the literature

reviews immediately after the introduction by listing out more than ten literature examples of

researches did by other psychiatrists on plastic surgery caused issues ( p. 344 ). For each example,

authors briefly stating the information of the psychiatrists, participants profiles like their gender

and types plastic surgery they did, the method used in the experiment and its result. Such listing
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provides authors a comprehensive information of varied illness characteristics and a context of

current medical development in this specific topic. Afterwards, authors find and analyze the patterns

of implication within each type psychiatric issues after categorizing them with according type of

surgery. For example, Literature that discusses optimizing patient satisfaction suggests having

careful pre-operative patient preparation and patient screening (William & Stephen, p. 347)

indicate the psychiatric treatment should be used on patient who need more satisfaction. Therefore,

literature case study and analysis is essential to psychiatrists finding cure for mental illness since

these reviews not only allow them to understand the context and features of certain psychiatric issue

in details, but also point out them specific direction for further research before making any further

movement. As a result, researchers can attain their goal of working out cure for people with

psychiatric issues in their highest efficiency.

With a fully understanding of the problem and a clear research direction, authors themselves

will do medical experiments to test their findings in literature works as well as discuss experiments'

results to give more supporting evidences to their arguments. William and Stephen place a clinical

experiment on an Arab American woman who did a rhinoplasty to reduce the size of the bridge of

her nose and verify her as experiencing a psychiatric identity defect after surgery (William &

Stephen, p. 348). To come closer to the cure solution, authors also dig into the formation of patients

mental disorders include their reasons and phases. Also, they will illustrate whether the case result

reflect the literature works indication. In the Arab American womans case, the connection between

her mental loss of identity and plastic surgery lies in the mental stress caused by her familys

objection toward her surgery. This hidden relation also verifies that patient need pre-operative

mental preparation as stated in previous literature records. Through medical experiments can

psychiatrists test their research hypothesis and acquire more evidences for their argument, and thus

process a logical and effective research to find treatment for psychiatric issues.

Computer science is a study of the theory, experimentation, and engineering that form the

basis for the design and use of computers. Computer scientists keep developing technologies that
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works with its best function by applying their works with the newest invented methodology. In the

article Proposed face recognition system after plastic surgery, authors named Amal and Vijanth

proposed a new system with greatly enhanced accuracy in facial recognition function because it

concludes the advantages of two different methods.

When the intention of authors is to propose a new computer system, it implies that this system

has certain strengthes in aspects where other older systems are weak at. Otherwise, there is no

reason for the invention if those existing ones are perfect. To point out the weakness in existing

ones, authors need to illustrate the features and functions of other related inventions with the same

purpose. By contrasting advantages and disadvantages of different works, the aspects researchers

need to put their efforts will be obviously to see. Amal and Vijanth give a brief introduction of the

former et al system with its history, features and most importantly, its performance in accuracy

aspect. Authors explains that One of the first works related to recognizing faces after plastic

surgery from digital images belongs to Singh etalnot able to handle plastic surgeries that are

classified as global procedures including, full face lift and skin resurfacing (Amal, Vijanth, Aamir,

Azrina Aziz, p. 342). By summarizing defects that previous works own, authors can directly know

the exact aspects they should work on to make their new system functions better. And in this case,

they need to improve the recognition function on faces after skin surgery. Besides instructing

researchers with direction to work on, these frauds found in other systems also help authors check

the comparison between others work and theirs after the achievement is attained.

To successfully create a new computer system that accurately represent the reality, computer

scientists need to start code programming with new algorithm formulas and calculations and then

run system test to ensure its validity. Authors illustrate their methodologies by explaining the logic

steps of their thinking, listing out algorithm formulas and marking out the meaning of each symbol

in the formulas. Take an instance of one of the formulas of GIST which is one of the methods used

in the new system, authors exemplify the formula by describing that represented by I(i, j). hk(i,

j) is the filter from a bank of multiscale- oriented Gabor filters (six orientations and four scales), and
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wk(i, j) is (Amal, Vijanth, Aamir, Azrina Aziz, p. 345). Through such explanation on methods

they used, authors thinking steps and purpose of making such formulas are clearly presented to

readers. It also provides convince for themselves when they recheck the validity of this formula.

These proposed methodologies are like hypothesizes which need to be tested to verify, so scientists

will run a series of tests to make sure their system reflects the truth. In order to give the test results

directly and clearly, authors organize these results in diagrams and tables rather than word

descriptions. Authors tend to apply the type of evidence according to the discipline features.

Researchers in computer science field are better with numerical type materials since they always

deal with algorithms and code programming. Consequently, computer scientists upgrade systems to

make it function in intended purpose by programming new methodologies and testing system

performance.

In general, by using featured conventions which mainly present in logic organization and

evidence types, authors try to solve the problems in their fields caused by plastic surgery.

Psychiatrists who cure for peoples mental disorders search for patterns in literature records firstly

and use their own medical experiments as supportive evidences to verify their arguments and

findings in literatures. However, computer scientists who make their technologies match the real

world find the weakness of related works firstly and then produce their systems with new

methodologies and result tests to fix disadvantages of other systems. Furthermore, the former

discipline tends to use word-analytical type evidence like documental records to support their

argument while the later one inclines to a more mathematical and technological way. Their

rhetorical conventions in research papers are all designed according to their academic discourse

features.
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Works Cited

Ali, A. S., Sagayan, V., Malik, A., & Aziz, A. (2016). Proposed face recognition system after

plastic surgery. IET Computer Vision, 10(5). DOI:10.1049/iet-cvi.2014.0263

William Leif Ericksen and Stephen Bates Billick, Psychiatric Issues in Cosmetic Plastic

Surgery, Psychiatr Q (2012). DOI: 10.1007/s11126-012-9204-8