Bi3307 Actual trends in shape and image analysis in anthropology

Faculty of Science
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. RNDr. Petra Urbanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. RNDr. Miroslav Králík, Ph.D.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The main objective of this course is to practise 2D and 3D digitizers operation (tpsDig, MicroScribe), practise operating shape analysis software (SigmaScan) and shape analysis programs (TPS, Morphologica, Past, Shape, EFAWin). At the end of this course the student should be able to: digitize bones and parts of a living human's body; analyze shape using methods of geometrical morphometrics; use histomorphometric methods; know the basics of advanced methods.
Syllabus
  • 1. History and review of current morphometry instruments in anthropology.
  • 2. Digitizing bones and parts of the living human's body into Cartesian coordinates of landmarks and curves using 2D and 3D digitizers.
  • 3. Shape analysis using methods of geometrical morphometrics(Procrustes superimposition, Thin Plate Spline, Partial Warps, Elliptical Fourier Analysis), visualization and interpretation of shape differences.
  • 4. Possibilities and current trends of histomorphometrics in skeletal anthropology. Practical training of histomorphometric methods for biological origin identification and age estimation according to teeth and bones: traditional metrical methods (lengths, indexes, areas).
  • 5. Outline of advance methods' possibilities (Elliptic Fourier Analysis, Eigenshape Analysis, Wavelet Analysis).
Literature
  • Software: TPS, Rhinoceros, Morphologica, EFAWin, Shape, SigmaScan, Statistica, Photoshop, Photopaint, Past.
  • Bookstein, F. L. (1991): Morphometric tools for landmark data: geometry and biology. Cambridge Univ. Press: New York.
  • Zelditch, M. L., D. L. Swiderski, H. D. Sheets, and W. L. Fink. (2004): Geometric Morphometrics for biologists: a primer. Elsevier Academic Press: London.
  • Kilian J., Šídlo R., Merglová V. (1981): K problematice určování stáří jedince podle chrupu. Soudní lékařství 26: 33-42, 49-54, 55-59.
  • URBANOVÁ, Petra and Vladimír NOVOTNÝ. Distinguishing between Human and Non-human bones: Histometric metod for forensic antropology. Anthropologie. 2005, XLIII, No 1, p. 77-85, 8 pp. ISSN 0323-1119. info
  • VYSTRČILOVÁ, Michaela and Vladimír NOVOTNÝ. Estimation of age at death using teeth. Variability and Evolution. Poznań: Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Anthropology, 2000, No 8, p. 39-49. ISSN 0860-7907. info
  • Kuhl, F.P. - Giardina, C.R. (1982): Elliptic Fourier Features of a Closed Contour. Computer Graphics and Image Processing 18: 236 - 258.
  • Iwata, H. - Ukai, Y. (2002): SHAPE: A Computer Program Package for Quantitative Evaluation of Biological Shapes Based on Elliptic Fourier Descriptors. The Journal of Heredity 93: 384 - 385.
  • Lestrel, P. E. - Cesar - Jr., R. M. - Takahashi, O. - Kanazawa, E. (2004): A Fourier-wavelet representation of 2-D-shapes: sexual dimorphism in the Japanese cranial base. Anthropological Science 112/1: 3 - 28.
Assessment methods
Practical course, taught in block session, for a limited number of DSP students of anthropology with serious interest, in exceptional cases also for other students. Concluded with credit after discussion on lab protocol.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008 - for the purpose of the accreditation, Spring 2011 - only for the accreditation, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, spring 2012 - acreditation, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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