Scan, extract, wrap, compute—a 3D method to analyse morphological shape differences
Scan, extract, wrap, compute—a 3D method to analyse morphological shape differences
Quantitative analysis of shape and form is critical in many biological disciplines, as context-dependent morphotypes reflect changes in gene expression and physiology, e.g., in comparisons of environment-dependent phenotypes, forward/reverse genetic assays or shape development during ontogenesis. 3D-shape rendering methods produce models with arbitrarily numbered, and therefore non-comparable, mesh points. However, …