Published November 3, 2026 | Version v1

Trained neural networks and slice analysis material for 'The life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian cat reconstructed by µCT'

  • 1. Department of Bioengineering, McGill University

Contributors

Data collector:

  • 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University

Description

These datasets are supplementary files for a bioarchaeology manuscript currently in review: 'The life and afterlife of an ancient Egyptian cat reconstructed by µCT' [UPDATE REQUIRED, add publishing info later below].

Each neural network was trained in Dragonfly 3D World to segment micro-CT reconstructions of four different cat specimens achieved at variable image resolutions. Neural networks 1-6 and 8 were custom trained by the authors using Dragonfly 3D World 2025.1, while the 'Pre-trained' model was trained by the Dragonfly team.

'egyptian-cat-mummy-microct-main.zip' refers to a GitHub repository hosting the data, code, macro and supplementary methods text required to reproduce a slice analysis of nasal turbinates in the four cats featuring in this study. [add Github link when published]

Original micro-CT reconstruction datasets and segmentations are available in the Federated Research Data Repository: doi:10.20383/103.01845.

Files

Cats_Model1_RM2728.1_skeleton_stitch_AD_P.zip

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Additional details

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Mitacs Alliance Grant ALLRP 590252-23
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Mitacs Alliance Grant MITACS IT38134 ACC
Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Nature et Technologies
2023-NOVA31584
New Frontiers in Research - Exploration
NFRFE-2021-00158