I take this opportunity to call your attention to software packages
associated with several recent papers that are now available from the FSU
Morphlab website. All are cross-platform Java programs that should run on
Linux, OS X, and Windows with appropriate Java virtual machines. The web
site is undergoing extensive revision, but the software, at least, is now
available for download.
Lab page:
http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/
Software page:
http://morphlab.sc.fsu.edu/software/index.html
Here you will find the most recent version of *Morpheus et al.* (new
development underway) as well as...
*forAge* - a new forensics program that one can use to estimate the age of
an individual from a scan of the pubic symphysis. This program implements
methods described in:
Slice, Dennis E., and Bridget F. B. Algee-Hewitt. “Modeling Bone Surface
Morphology: A Fully Quantitative Method for Age-at-Death Estimation Using
the Pubic Symphysis.” Journal of Forensic Sciences, April 1, 2015, n/a-n/a.
doi:10.1111/1556-4029.12778.
Stoyanova, Detelina, Bridget F.B. Algee-Hewitt, and Dennis E. Slice. “An
Enhanced Computational Method for Age-at-Death Estimation Based on the
Pubic Symphysis Using 3D Laser Scans and Thin Plate Splines.” American
Journal of Physical Anthropology 158, no. 3 (November 1, 2015): 431–40.
doi:10.1002/ajpa.22797.
These methods/results may well be sex and population specific - we are
working on those issues, so keep that in mind.
and...
*GPSA* - software implementing a landmark-free method for the
superimposition of surfaces with associated distance metrics and
visualization published in PLOS ONE in March:
Pomidor, Benjamin J., Jana Makedonska, and Dennis E. Slice. “A
Landmark-Free Method for Three-Dimensional Shape Analysis.” PLOS ONE 11,
no. 3 (March 8, 2016): e0150368. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0150368.
Direct link:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0150368
The GPSA method can be sensitive to initialization - e.g., the
initialization might get caught at a local minimum. Initialization is
automatic in the current release of the program, but future version will
allow more manual intervention to address this issue.
As both forAge and GPSA implement new methods, you encouraged to give these
programs a try using the provided data sets, test them extensively on
appropriate data you might have at hand, but otherwise use them with
caution.
Have fun!
-ds
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