Fourier Descriptors and their Applications in Biology

ISBN: 9780521055734 出版年：1997 页码：480 Pete E Lestrel Cambridge University Press

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