Capturing data from three-dimensional surfaces using fuzzy landmarks

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 113-124

  Valeri, Christopher J ^a   Cole III, Theodore M ^a,c   Lele, Subhash ^b   Richtsmeier, Joan T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinate data; Craniofacial skeleton; Measurement error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031720719     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1<113::AID-AJPA9>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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