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Egyptian mummified animals can be accurately visualized with automated "virtual segmentation" method

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Fig 11. Rendering of the mummy MHNGr.ET.1023 (dog).
A: external aspect of the remaining bandages (segmentation ASEMI NN), B: rendering of the preserved soft parts of the puppy (segmentation ASEMI NN), C: rendering of the bones (segmentation U-Net), D: detail on the soft parts showing its weak preservation state through holes certainly caused by pests or putrefaction (segmentation U-Net), E: rendering of the decidual and permanent dentition of puppy showing its young age (segmentation U-Net). Credit: Tanti et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Egyptian mummified animals can be accurately visualized with automated "virtual segmentation" method

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260707

Article Title: Automated segmentation of microtomography imaging of Egyptian mummies

Author Countries: France, Malta

Funding: The Automated SEgmentation of Microtomography Imaging (ASEMI) project has received funding from the ATTRACT project funded by the EC under Grant Agreement 777222. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0260707

Automated segmentation of microtomography imaging of Egyptian mummies

15-Dec-2021

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Keywords

Anthropology Archeology Historical Archeology Human Remains Image Analysis Image Segmentation Mummified Remains Tomography

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0260707
Article Publication Date
2021-12-15
Article Title
Automated segmentation of microtomography imaging of Egyptian mummies
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Contact Information

Hanna Abdallah
PLOS
onepress@plos.org

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APA:
PLOS. (2021, December 15). Egyptian mummified animals can be accurately visualized with automated "virtual segmentation" method. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/80EEME38/egyptian-mummified-animals-can-be-accurately-visualized-with-automated-virtual-segmentation-method.html
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"Egyptian mummified animals can be accurately visualized with automated "virtual segmentation" method." Brightsurf News, Dec. 15 2021, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/80EEME38/egyptian-mummified-animals-can-be-accurately-visualized-with-automated-virtual-segmentation-method.html.