Introduction

On behalf of the National Library of Medicine, I would like to introduce you to the Proceedings of the First Users Conference of the National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project. The Conference, held at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH campus on October 7 and 8, 1996 brought together early adopters, potential users and developers, as well as interested parties from a wide range of disciplines for the purpose of discussing results obtained and problems encountered using the Visible Human data sets. Over fifty data set users demonstrated products and discussed models and algorithms based on the data sets. Our objective was to foster scholarly discussions among project participants and to encourage new collaborations with conference attendees.

In order to better capture the presentations given at the Conference, each presenter was asked to provide up to 10 megabytes of multimedia information which would be representative of their presentation. The information provided could include text, pictures, movies and programs. The idea was to go beyond the limitations of the printed page. The information was collected and edited into the CD-ROM based web browser format which you have accessed by Mr. Rick Banvard of NLM. I offer my sincere thanks for his tireless efforts in coordinating the Conference and for editing its Proceedings.

I sincerely hope that you will enjoy your virtual visit with us.

Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Project Officer

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Brian D. Athey, Ph.D., The University of Michigan

Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Ph.D., Purdue University

Carole A. Bean, Ph.D., M.L.S., Columbia University

Ann L. Bushyhead, M.Ed., Duke University

David Dean, Ph.D., Case Western University

James W. DeVocht, D.C., M.S., University of Iowa

Heather Drury, Washington University - St. Louis

Philip J. Edwards, M.Sc., Guy's Hospital, London, England

Gary D. Hack, M.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore

Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University

Prof. Karl Heinz Hoehne, University Hospital Hamburg

Helen M. Hoffman, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Celina Imielinska, Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology

Prem Kalra, University of Geneva

William T. Katz, Ph.D., M.D., Multimedia Medical Systems

Arie Kaufman, Ph.D, State University of New York at Stony Brook

John P. Kerr, Ph.D., Engineering Animation, Inc.

Gerald Krabbel, Berlin University of Technology

Rudy J.A. Lapeer, Cambridge University

Hao Le, Flashback Imaging

L. Rodney Long, National Library of Medicine

William Lorensen, GE Corporate Research and Development

Patrick J. Lynch, M.S., Yale University

Jorge A. Márquez, M.S., Ecole Nationale Superieure de Telecommunications

Thomas O. McCracken, M.S., Visible Productiions LLC

Kevin W. McEnery, M.D., University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Gregory L. Merril, HT Medical

Marcus Müller, University of Karlsruhe

Rakesh Mullick, Ph.D., National University of Singapore

Gary L. Nieder, Ph.D., Wright State University

Chris North, University of Maryland

Prof. Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano

Debra A. Quackenbush, Engineering Animation, Inc.

Richard A. Robb, Ph.D., Mayo Foundation / Clinic

Muriel D. Ross, NASA Ames Research Center

Frank B. Sachse, University of Karlsruhe

Daniel R. Schikore, Purdue University

Michael S. Sellberg, Engineering Animation, Inc.

Prof. Steven Senger, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

Jon Seymour, M.D., Gold Standard Multimedia, Inc.

Alvy Ray Smith, Ph.D., Microsoft Corporation

Victor M. Spitzer, Ph.D., University of Colorado

John E. Stewart, M.S., Medical College of Virginia

George R. Thoma, Ph.D., National Library of Medicine

Mi Young Toh, M.A., National Library of Medicine

Contacts

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The Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings

• It was originally intended that links on this CD-ROM would only be to resources located on the disc. This was based on the notion that as an archival medium it would not be possible to update the links. Since many of the authors included external links, it was decided to leave them as submitted, with the exception that where the links appear as text (as opposed to images), they have been italicized to identify them as external. External links were not validated in the process of editing the CD-ROM.

• In order to view all of the resources on the CD-ROM your browser needs to be enabled to read the following file types.
  

    .mpg  (MPEG movie) 
    .mov  (QuickTime movie)
    .jpg  (JPEG image)
    .gif  (Image)
    .tif  (Image)
    .xbm  (Image)
    .tcl  (Script)
    .ps   (Post Script)
    .wrl  (VRML motion)
  

• Consider placing a bookmark in your browser software to a location in the vhpconf.htm document. This can eliminate the need for repetitive 'Back' operations when navigating from an author's paper to the conference index. Suggested bookmark: local file VHPCONF.HTM#Top on your CD-ROM drive.

• In the event a final paper was not received, a copy of the absrtact was used to create an HTML document.