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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 14:37:15 -0400
From: Carmelo Fruciano <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Carmelo Fruciano <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Identifying Landmark points
To: [email protected]
[email protected] ha scritto:
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> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:43:33 -0400
> From: Daniel Arranaga
> Reply-To: Daniel Arranaga
> Subject: Identifying Landmark points
> To: [email protected]
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> I am using 28 landmark points for a study on mandibles. The majority
> of them are common points such as Gonion, Mandibural notch, coronion
> and so on. However I have some points that I created myself for the
> purposes of my study.
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> Question: Can I make up names for these points. Is there a system to
> this. Is it possible the are not made up land mark points but I have
> been unable to find them in previous research. I'll Copy and paste
> the landmarks and definitions.
> I made up the name for landmark 8,9 and 10. I have no names yet for
> 16 and 17.
Dear Daniel,
to my knowledge, describing the landmarks that do not correspond to
well known anatomical structures is common place so I guess there
shouldbe no problem with this. I imagine that making up new names
should be evaluated on a case by case basis but it's not very common
(most studies are concerned with covering adequately the shape of a
structure to answer questions about the underlying biology, not to
names of landmarks per se).
Reading the descriptions of the points you provided, it sounds like
many of them are not type I landmarks (sensu Bookstein 1991 -
Morphometric Tools for Landmark Data) and, at least in some cases,
maybe would be best treated as semilandmarks.
I hope this helps...
Best,
Carmelo
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Carmelo Fruciano
Marie Curie Fellow - University of Konstanz - Konstanz, Germany
Honorary Fellow - University of Catania - Catania, Italy
e-mail [email protected]
http://www.fruciano.it/research/
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