The chapter provides an introduction to computational shape analysis, emphasizing its importance in various fields such as biology, medicine, and robotics. It discusses the challenges and applications of shape analysis, including the classification of biological entities based on morphological information and the morphometric analysis of neural cells. The chapter outlines the main tasks involved in shape analysis, which are categorized into shape pre-processing, shape transformations, and shape classification. It also highlights the importance of noise filtering, shape operations, and shape representation techniques. The text concludes by discussing the significance of shape analysis in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological entities.The chapter provides an introduction to computational shape analysis, emphasizing its importance in various fields such as biology, medicine, and robotics. It discusses the challenges and applications of shape analysis, including the classification of biological entities based on morphological information and the morphometric analysis of neural cells. The chapter outlines the main tasks involved in shape analysis, which are categorized into shape pre-processing, shape transformations, and shape classification. It also highlights the importance of noise filtering, shape operations, and shape representation techniques. The text concludes by discussing the significance of shape analysis in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological entities.