title: Knowledge-based client-server approach to structural information retrieval: the Digital Anatomist Browser.
abstract: Structural information can be defined as data and knowledge about biological objects ranging in size from molecules to the whole body. A framework is described for organizing structural information around a well-defined set of terminology and semantic relationships, and for disseminating multimedia structural information by means of a wide-area information server that is accessible over the internet. A Macintosh-based client of this server, called the Digital Anatomist Browser, has been used to teach neuroanatomy for the last 2 years. The client-server approach provides each student unlimited access to a rapidly growing knowledge base of structural biology that, while immediately useful for anatomy teaching, has the potential to be an organizing framework for other kinds of medical knowledge as well.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle 98195.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Brinkley
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eno
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Sundsten
mesh_terms: D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008838:Microcomputers; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D009445:Neuroanatomy; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D014584:User-Computer Interface