Automated classification of starch granules using supervised pattern recognition of morphological properties

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 594-604

  Wilson, Julie ^a   Hardy, Karen ^b   Allen, Richard ^a   Copeland, Les ^c   Wrangham, Richard ^d   Collins, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Image analysis; Starch morphology; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

DENTITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STARCH;

PAN;

EID: 72649096966     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.10.024     Document Type: Article

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