The Visible Human Project

Projects Based on the Visible Human Data Set

Sources of images and animations

• Marching Through the Visible Man (paper written by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
• Marching Through the Visible Woman. (companion paper by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
• 3D Virtual Colonoscopy (static images and fly-through animations from the Departments of Radiology and Computer Science at SUNY Stony Brook).
• Interactive Knee Program (University of Pennsylvania Medical Center).
• Visible Human Research (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; includes renderings and animations based upon CT and RGB data from both the male and female datasets).
• A Guided Tour of the Visible Human (Washington University Medical School - The MAD Scientist Network).
• The Virtual Human (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago).
• The Vesalius Project (Creating a Computer-Based Anatomy Curriculum - Columbia University).
• MEET Man Project (Models for Simulation of Electromagnetic, Elastomechanic and Thermic Behaviour of Man - University of Karlsruhe)
• Computer Graphics and Medicine (MIRALab - University of Geneva)
• MPIRE (Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment - an interactive, distributed, direct volume rendering system for Cray T3D, Cray T3E, or SGI workstations, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center).
• Images and animations (the Institiute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany).
• Award winning 3D browser for the head (Tom Conlin of the University of Oregon - requires a Java 1.1 enabled Web client).
• U-SCALE Computer Aided Learning Environment for Human Gross Anatomy Project (DEMO from the University of Saskatchewan - Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.x: Java and javascript enabled, and accepting cookies).
• The Virtual Anatomy Explorer (3D VRML browsing prototypes from the University Clinic Giessen, Germany - Cosmo player recommended for VRML viewing).
• The Visible Human Project-Reduced Data Sets (Normal [Fresh] CT scan data sets for both the male and female in reduced resolution - the University of Wisconsin).
• 3D Anatomy for Medical Students (interactive VRML models, with contol for structure displayed, transparency, labels, embedded images, etc. - McGill University).
• daVinci (prototype simulator for performing vascular catherterization and interventional radiology procedures - Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore).
• Animating the Visible Human Data Set (Rutgers University, VIZLAB).
• Peel-away Visible Human Movies for the Palm Pilot (Medical Multimedia Systems).
• Football player animations (Anatomical Travelogue).