Sister post to the Visible Human project post by Rajini Rao
I’m focusing on the software that it has spawned.
What you see below is a screenshot from Zygote Body browser, formerly Google Body Browser. http://goo.gl/7DJlZ (Interactive, try it!)
Wiki (http://goo.gl/soFZz) has cow Google April fools joke.
The name visible human project is interesting because they started out with a visible technique, i.e, photographing “slices” of a frozen male cadaver. The technique was improved for the female cadaver the next year.
Cool examples here:
http://www.vtk.org/VTK/project/casestudies.html
You can get a feel for how the visualization goes for the female data here:
Atlas
In the medical imaging community we often talk about atlases. An atlas in this context is a “generic” organ or in some cases whole organism that you use to guide you anatomically, eh, like an atlas for a traveler. For example, one might have a brain atlas that shows the generic human brain. You would take the atlas, where you know the anatomy and use it to either segment a brain that has a defect or guide you on a functional image like positron emission tomography (PET) which used fluorodeoxyglucose labeled with F-18 to show metabolism. If you’ve seen my other ScienceSunday posts you’ll already know I talk a lot about functional vs. anatomical images. The example shown below is from the Harvard MRI/PET atlas (interactive Javascript) demonstrating how in the MRI the fornix is easy to find but not in the PET image. When the atlas is used in a fused image, the fornix is easier to find in the PET image.
Harvard MRI atlas in action. (Interactive, try it!)
Suffice it to say, I ♥ this stuff
The Visible Human project Wiki (http://goo.gl/Lc8bG) and NLM (http://goo.gl/DrsLo).
#sciencesunday
Oh, no I put Feisal Kamil to sleep. Good night sir.
Perfect complement to the Visible Human post, thank you Chad Haney ! Could you direct people here from my post in a comment with a link? Or should I add to main post..the other commentators will not be notified then.
Cross posting comment coming up. Then mow the lawn :P.
Haha, I need to weed..desperately.
Rajini Rao, I’m guessing Allison Sekuler and Robby Bowles are busy. Maybe they could link our posts if they decide to add them to ScienceSunday.
They seem to work the evening shift 😉
Hope your lawn got mowed?
Mowed and weeded. OK, semi-weeded.
Plus one for that, Chad Haney 🙂
Made it! thanks for the share.