The measurement of biological shape and shape change/
by Fred L Bookstein
- Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1978.
- viii,191p.
- Lecture notes in biomathematics, 24. .
1.Introduction: On the Absence of Geometry from Morphometrics -- First Part. The Measurement of Biological Shape -- 2.Shapes and Measures of Shape -- 3. Critique of an Applied Field: Conventional Cephalometrics -- 4.New Statistical Methods for Shape -- Second Part. The Measurement of Shape Change Using Biorthogonal Grids -- 5. The Study of Shape Transformation after D'Arcy Thompson -- 6.The Method of Biorthogonal Grids -- 7. Examples of Biorthogonal Analysis -- 8.Future Directions for Transformation Analysis -- 9. Envoi -- Literature Cited.
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Morphology--Mathematics Body size--Measurement Mathematics Image processing