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Published on: June 7, 2024
The visible human project®: From body to bits
Abstract:
In the middle 1990's the U.S. National Library sponsored the acquisition and development of the Visible Human Project® data base. This image database contains anatomical cross-sectional images which allow the reconstruction of three dimensional male and female anatomy to an accuracy of less than 1.0 mm. The male anatomy is contained in a 15 gigabyte database, the female in a 39 gigabyte database. This talk will describe why and how this project was accomplished and demonstrate some of the products which the Visible Human dataset has made possible. I will conclude by describing how the Visible Human Project, completed over 20 years ago, has led the National Library of Medicine to a series of image research projects including an open source image processing toolkit which is included in several commercial products.
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