Project Summary :

The National Library of Medicine provides Visible Human data which is a set of digitized images of a complete human male and female, with anatomical photographs, as well as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computer tomography (CT) data.

NPAC has obtained a copy of the Visible Human data set and is working on processing the raw data to produce two and three dimensional images that can be accessed over the Internet for educational purposes.

The images are available as two dimensional slices, via The NPAC Visible Human Viewer, an interactive graphical interface written in Java.

The 3D version of Visible Human Head is also avaiable as VRML1.0 file.

http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/3Dvisiblehuman

Currently, we are working on stereo rendering to obtain the real 3D illusion of the visible human data.

Technology Used in this project :

The most important and time consuming part in creating 3D models of Visible Human is segmentation. The manual segmentation of Visible Human data is done using modules written in C on AVS, also same algorithms implemented in Java.
The 3D surfaces are then generated using SGI-explorer isosurface algorithm.

Sample Image :

NPAC 3D Visible Human Project Homepage :

3D Visible Human Head from different angles :