Segmenting the visible human female

Web-based three-dimensional Virtual Body Structures (W3D-VBS) is an interactive image-based anatomical training system over the Internet. It uses segmented low-resolution Visible Human Male (LR-VHM) data to dynamically explore, select, highlight, label, extract, manipulate, and stereoscopically palpate 3D virtual anatomical models with a haptic device. The segmentation results presented in this paper for the Visible Human Female (VHF) and the high resolution Visible Human Male (HR-VHM) have been obtained using our segmentation tools. Segmenting the HR-VHM was an easier task as we use the segmented shapes and label information of existing LR-VHM data, with the same image content. This is not the case for the VHF and we needed to develop a special tool, Segm-VHF, which allows us to integrate the VHF dataset into W3D-VBS.