Technical Note: Anatomic identification of isolated modern human molars: Testing procrustes aligned outlines as a standardization procedure for elliptic fourier analysis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 314-322

  Corny, Julien ^a,b   Détroit, Florent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

contour shape analysis; geometric morphometrics; normalization; tooth recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; ELLIPTIC FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED PROCRUSTES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MANDIBLE; MAXILLA; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOMETRICS; NORMAL HUMAN; STANDARDIZATION; TOOTH CROWN;

CONTOUR SHAPE ANALYSIS; GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS; NORMALIZATION; TOOTH RECOGNITION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FOSSILS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLAR; ODONTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84892577862     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22428     Document Type: Article

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