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Visible Korean human: improved serially sectioned images of the entire body
- Source :
- IEEE transactions on medical imaging. 24(3)
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- The data from the Visible Human Project (VHP) and the Chinese Visible Human (CVH), which are the serially sectioned images of the entire cadaver, are being used to produce three-dimensional (3-D) images and software. The purpose of our research, the Visible Korean Human (VKH), is to produce an enhanced version of the serially sectioned images of an entire cadaver that can be used to upgrade the 3-D images and software. These improvements are achieved without drastically changing the methods developed for the VHP and CVH; thus, a complementary solution was found. A Korean male cadaver was chosen without anything perfused into the cadaver; the entire body was magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) scanned at 1.0-mm intervals to produce MR and CT images. After scanning, entire body of the cadaver was embedded and serially sectioned at 0.2-mm intervals; each sectioned surface was inputted into a personal computer to produce anatomical images (pixel size: 0.2 mm) without any missing images. Eleven anatomical organs in the anatomical images were segmented to produce segmented images. The anatomical and segmented images were stacked and reconstructed to produce 3-D images. The VKH is an ongoing research; we will produce a female version of the VKH and provide more detailed segmented images. The data from the VHP, CVH, and VKH will provide valuable resources to the medical image library of 3-D images and software in the field of medical education and clinical trials.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Models, Anatomic
Computer science
Computed tomography
Iterative reconstruction
Sensitivity and Specificity
projects
Pattern Recognition, Automated
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Cadaver
Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
medicine
Computer Graphics
Cluster Analysis
Humans
Computer vision
Computer Simulation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Korea
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
medicine.diagnostic_test
Pixel
Visible human project
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
Image segmentation
Visible Human Projects
Reference Standards
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Computer Science Applications
projects.project
Subtraction Technique
Tomography
Artificial intelligence
business
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Software
Cryoultramicrotomy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02780062
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE transactions on medical imaging
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ad2b0da86b07ff0e097162580ade83b4