title: 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.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Ackerman
mesh_terms: D019412:Anatomy, Cross-Sectional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D014481:United States; D053443:Visible Human Projects