Abstract Availability of the Visible Human dataset has led to
many
interesting applications and research projects in imaging and graphics, as evidenced by the
Visible Human web site and
by papers from the previous conference. However, the project has not yet achieved the long-term
goal stated in the
Visible Human Fact sheet, to " transparently link the print library of functional-physiological
knowledge with the
image library of structural-anatomical knowledge into one unified resource of health
information.". We believe that
the critical missing pieces necessary to achieve this goal are 1) a comprehensive symbolic
knowledge base of anatomical
terms and relationships that gives meaning to the images, 2) a fully segmented dataset that is
widely available and that
associates each voxel or extracted structure with a name from the knowledge base, and 3)
methods for combining these
resources in intelligent ways.
