Bookstein, Fred L.

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

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