Fourier Descriptors and their Applications in Biology

摘要: List of contributors Preface Part I. Theoretical Considerations: 1. Introduction Pete E. Lestrel 2. and overview Fourier descriptors 3. Growth form revisited Dwight W. Read 4. Methodological issues in the description forms Paul O'Higgins 5. Phase angles, harmonic distance analysis Roger L. Kaesler II. Applications Descriptors: 6. Closed-form analysis: a procedure for extraction ecological information about foraminiferal test morphology Nancy Healy-Williams, Robert Ehrlich William Full 7. shape differences: studies on upper vertebral column mouse David Johnson 8. Application method genetic dentofacial Lindsay Richards, Grant Townsend Kazutaka Kasai 9. size changes Japanese skull Fumio Ohtsuki, Lestrel, Teruo Uetake, Adachi Kazuro Hanihara 10. Craniofacial variability hominoidea Burkhard Jacobshagen 11. Heuristic adequacy descriptors: methodologic aspects applications Vittorio Pesce Delfino, Teresa Lettini Eligio Vacca 12. Analyzing human gait with Uetake 13. Elliptical cell nuclear shapes Giacomo Diaz, Corrado Cappai, Maria Dolores Setzu, Silvia Sirigu Andrea Diana 14. Cranial base shunt-treated hydrocephalics: Jan A Huggare 15. numerical visual approach measuring effects functional appliance therapy: Won Moon 16. Size rabbit orbit: 3-D Charles Wolfe 17. From optical to computational transforms: natural history an investigation cancellous structure bone Oxnard 18. Epilogue: methods Neal Garrett Appendix Glossary Index.