TY - JOUR T1 - Reconstructing individual shape histories of fish otoliths: A new image-based tool for otolith growth analysis and modeling A1 - Fablet,Ronan A1 - Chessel,Anatole A1 - Carbini,Sebastien A1 - Benzinou,Abdesslam A1 - de Pontual,Helene AD - Telecom Bretagne, Inst Telecom, UMR 3192, LabSTICC, F-29238 Brest 3, France. AD - IFREMER, STH, F-29280 Plouzane, France. AD - ENIB, RESO, F-29280 Plouzane, France. AD - UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/6319/ DO - 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.10.011 KW - 2D otolith growth KW - Growth axis extraction KW - Growth ring extraction KW - Shape dynamics KW - Otolith imaging N2 - In this paper is presented a novel image processing tool for the extraction of geometric information in otolith images. It relies on the reconstruction of individual otolith shape histories from otolith images. Based on the proposed non-parametric level-set representation of otolith shape history, applications to the extraction of growth axes and ring structures in otolith images are first considered. A second category of applications concern the analysis of 2D otolith growth. The potential of the proposed framework is illustrated on real otolith images for various species (e.g., cod, pollock) and discussed with a particular emphasis on the genericity of the approach and on applications such as otolith shape analysis, multi-proxy otolith analysis, otolith modeling. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved Y1 - 2009/03 PB - Elsevier JF - Fisheries Research SN - 0165-7836 VL - 96 IS - 2-3 SP - 148 EP - 159 ID - 6319 ER -