Automated morphological phenotyping using learned shape descriptors and functional maps: A novel approach to geometric morphometrics

• Oshane O. Thomas ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: othomas2@illinois.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3500-5445

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• Hongyu Shen,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Compute Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7620-805X

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• Ryan L. Raaum,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4723-5475

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• William E. H. Harcourt-Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Lehman College, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, New York, United States of America, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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• John D. Polk ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Anthropology, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America

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• Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Electrical and Compute Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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