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ashapesampler:Generating Alpha Shapes

Understanding morphological variation is an important task in many applications. Recent studies in computational biology have focused on developing computational tools for the task of sub-image selection which aims at identifying structural features that best describe the variation between classes of shapes. A major part in assessing the utility of these approaches is to demonstrate their performance on both simulated and real datasets. However, when creating a model for shape statistics, real data can be difficult to access and the sample sizes for these data are often small due to them being expensive to collect. Meanwhile, the landscape of current shape simulation methods has been mostly limited to approaches that use black-box inference---making it difficult to systematically assess the power and calibration of sub-image models. In this R package, we introduce the alpha-shape sampler: a probabilistic framework for simulating realistic 2D and 3D shapes based on probability distributions which can be learned from real data or explicitly stated by the user. The 'ashapesampler' package supports two mechanisms for sampling shapes in two and three dimensions. The first, empirically sampling based on an existing data set, was highlighted in the original main text of the paper. The second, probabilistic sampling from a known distribution, is the computational implementation of the theory derived in that paper. Work based on Winn-Nunez et al. (2024) <doi:10.1101/2024.01.09.574919>.

Maintained by Emily Winn-Nunez. Last updated 1 years ago.

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doolkit:Exploration of Dental Surface Topography

Tools for exploring the topography of 3d triangle meshes. The functions were developed with dental surfaces in mind, but could be applied to any triangle mesh of class 'mesh3d'. More specifically, 'doolkit' allows to isolate the border of a mesh, or a subpart of the mesh using the polygon networks method; crop a mesh; compute basic descriptors (elevation, orientation, footprint area); compute slope, angularity and relief index (Ungar and Williamson (2000) <https://palaeo-electronica.org/2000_1/gorilla/issue1_00.htm>; Boyer (2008) <doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.002>), inclination and occlusal relief index or gamma (Guy et al. (2013) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066142>), OPC (Evans et al. (2007) <doi:10.1038/nature05433>), OPCR (Wilson et al. (2012) <doi:10.1038/nature10880>), DNE (Bunn et al. (2011) <doi:10.1002/ajpa.21489>; Pampush et al. (2016) <doi:10.1007/s10914-016-9326-0>), form factor (Horton (1932) <doi:10.1029/TR013i001p00350>), basin elongation (Schum (1956) <doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1956)67[597:EODSAS]2.0.CO;2>), lemniscate ratio (Chorley et al; (1957) <doi:10.2475/ajs.255.2.138>), enamel-dentine distance (Guy et al. (2015) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138802>; Thiery et al. (2017) <doi:10.3389/fphys.2017.00524>), absolute crown strength (Schwartz et al. (2020) <doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0671>), relief rate (Thiery et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/ajpa.23916>) and area-relative curvature; draw cumulative profiles of a topographic variable; and map a variable over a 3d triangle mesh.

Maintained by Ghislain Thiery. Last updated 1 years ago.

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