Morphometric Skull Analysis Using Jointed Chains of Rigid Bodies

Authors

Presenter(s)

Bingjue Li

Files

Description

Morphometrics seeks to quantify shapes for the purposes of comparison. This work investigates two morphometric problems by applying the theory of shape-changing rigid-body mechanisms. The first problem is the analysis of a head growth in children. The second problem is the spatiotemporal evolution of the longitudinal human skull shape. These problems are specified with a set of curves that represent the cranium shapes as they change over time, in the child’s head as it grows and in the skull as it evolves. Using the rigid-body shape-changing mechanism design methodology, a chain of rigid links connected by revolute and prismatic joints is generated to approximate the set of curves. The advantage of approaching morphometrics in this way is that a modest number of physical parameters describes the changes between the curves.

Publication Date

4-9-2015

Project Designation

Graduate Research

Primary Advisor

Andrew P. Murray, David H. Myszka

Primary Advisor's Department

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Keywords

Stander Symposium project

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Engineering | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Recommended Citation

"Morphometric Skull Analysis Using Jointed Chains of Rigid Bodies" (2015). Stander Symposium Projects. 675.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/675