Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

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Norman MacLeod
CRC Press, Jul 23, 2007 - Computers - 368 pages
The automated identification of biological objects or groups has been a dream among taxonomists and systematists for centuries. However, progress in designing and implementing practical systems for fully automated taxon identification has been frustratingly slow. Regardless, the dream has never died. Recent developments in computer architectures an
 

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Digital Innovation and Taxonomys Finest Hour
9
Man versus Machine
25
Chapter 4 Neural Networks in Brief
47
An Old Theme Revisited
69
Concepts and Applications
83
A Practical ComputerBased Tool for SemiAutomated Species Identification
101
Chapter 8 Automated Extraction and Analysis of Morphological Features for Species Identification
115
A MachineLearning Method for Characterizing Morphological Patterns Resulting from Ecological Adaptation
261
The Yeasts and the BioloMICS Software as a Case Study
277
Chapter 17 Automatic Measurement of Honeybee Wings
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Chapter 18 Good Performers Know Their Audience Identification and Characterization of Pitch Contours in Infant and ForeignerDirected Speech
299
Appendix 1
311
Appendix 2
313
Appendix 3
315
Appendix 4
319

Wavelets Neural Networks and Internet Accessibility in an ImageBased Automated Identification System
131
Face Recognition in Wasps
153
An Initial Report
189
Chapter 12 Plant Identification from Characters and Measurements Using Artificial Neural Networks
207
Can Reliable Taxonomic Identifications Be Made Using Isolated Foot Bones?
225
Chapter 14 A New SemiAutomatic Morphometric Protocol for Conodonts and a Preliminary Taxonomic Application
239
Appendix 5
321
Subject Index
329
Taxon Index
337
Back cover
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Page vii - Association also publishes volumes that are not specifically linked to meetings and encourages new publications in a broad range of Systematics topics. Anyone wishing to learn more about the Systematics Association and its publications should refer to our website at http://www.systass.org Other Systematics Association publications are listed after the index for this volume.
Page vii - Systematics (1940) was a classic work edited by its then-president Sir Julian Huxley, that set out the problems facing general biologists in deciding which kinds of data would most effectively progress systematics. Since then, more than 70 volumes have been published, often in rapidly expanding areas of science where a modern synthesis is required. The modus operand/ of the Association is to encourage leading researchers to organize symposia that result in a multi-authored volume. In...

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