Skrzat Janusz, Walocha Jerzy
Department of Anatomy, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland.
Folia Morphol (Warsz). 2003 May;62(2):119-22.
Traditional studies of the cranial suture morphology have focused mostly on visual estimation and linear measurements, and thus on evaluating their complexity. This paper presents a new look on cranial sutures as curves, which can be analysed by fractal dimension. This new measure seems to be a much better method of expressing properties of sutural patterns than traditional methods. Our findings suggest that the fractal dimension of non-complicated interparietal sutures slightly exceeds the topological dimension of the line, that is 1.0, whereas the fractal dimension of complicated sutures may reach a value of 1.4 or even more. The difference between the minimum and maximum decimal fraction of the fractal dimension indicates a three-fold increase in complexity in the investigated sutures.
传统的颅缝形态学研究主要集中在视觉估计和线性测量上，因此侧重于评估它们的复杂性。本文提出了一种将颅缝视为曲线的新视角，这些曲线可以通过分形维数进行分析。这种新方法似乎比传统方法更能很好地表达颅缝模式的特性。我们的研究结果表明，非复杂的顶间缝的分形维数略超过线的拓扑维数，即1.0，而复杂缝的分形维数可能达到1.4甚至更高。分形维数的最小和最大小数值之间的差异表明，所研究的缝的复杂性增加了两倍。
