Endomaker, a new algorithm for fully automatic extraction of cranial endocasts and the calculation of their volumes
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | PalaeoHub, Department of Archaeology University of York York UK, Elettra Synchrotron Trieste Trieste Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale Sapienza Università di Roma Rome Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e delle Risorse Università di Napoli Naples Italy |
| ANO | 2020 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Journal of Physical Anthropology |
| ISSN | 0002-9483 |
| E-ISSN | 1096-8644 |
| EDITORA | Berghahn Journals (United Kingdom) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.24043 |
| CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
ObjectivesReproducing cranial endocasts is a major goal of researchers interested in vertebrate brain evolution. We present a new R software, named endomaker, which allows the automatic extraction of endocasts from skull meshes along with the calculation of its volume.Materials and methodsWe applied endomaker on non‐primate and primate skulls including the Australopithecus africanus specimen Sts‐5.ResultsWe proved endomaker is faster, more feature‐rich and possibly more accurate than competing software.DiscussionEndomaker is the only available program endowed with the possibility to process an entire mesh directory straight away, promising to expand the scope and phylogenetic breadth of comparative studies of brain evolution.