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Using the Visible Human Dataset to Represent Part-whole Relations
in the Vesalius Navigational Ontology

Nina Wacholder PhD, Judith Venuti PhD*, Celina Imielinska PhD, Michael Krauthammer MD**, and Pat Molholt PhD

Columbia University, New York, New York
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*Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
**Department of Medical Informatics
nina@cs.columbia.edu

Abstract
      A variety of complex issues arise in preparing models reconstructed from the Visible Human dataset for use with a navigational ontology. In this paper, we focus on how the process of segmentation and presentation of anatomical structures must be developed in correspondence with the ontology.
 
Keywords: 3D models, anatomical structures, knowledge base, navigational ontology, segmentation, UMLS.
 
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