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Visible Human Project

The Visible Human Project

Projects Based on the Visible Human Data Set

Sources of images and animations

  • Marching Through the Visible Man (paper written by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
  • Marching Through the Visible Woman (companion paper by Bill Lorensen of the GE Imaging & Visualization Laboratory).
  • GigaPan Time Machine Developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute. (Currently, only Safari 5.0+ and Chrome 7.0+ Browsers are known to be fully compatible).
  • Visible Human Research (Arctic Region Supercomputing Center; includes renderings and animations based upon CT and RGB data from both the male and female datasets).
  • A Guided Tour of the Visible Human (Washington University Medical School - The MAD Scientist Network). If you’re looking at an archived version of this page and the hyperlink to the left doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser http://www.madsci.org/~lynn/VH/tour.html

  • The Virtual Human (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago).
  • The Vesalius Project (Creating a Computer-Based Anatomy Curriculum - Columbia University).
  • Computer Graphics and Medicine (MIRALab - University of Geneva)
  • MPIRE (Massively Parallel Interactive Rendering Environment - an interactive, distributed, direct volume rendering system for Cray T3D, Cray T3E, or SGI workstations, from the San Diego Supercomputer Center).
  • Stanford Visible Female, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
  • U-SCALE Computer Aided Learning Environment for Human Gross Anatomy Project (DEMO from the University of Saskatchewan - Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.x: Java and javascript enabled, and accepting cookies).

  • Visible Human Project DICOM CT Datasets from the University of Iowa Magnetic Resonance Research Facility. If you’re looking at an archived version of this page and the hyperlink to the left doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser  https://medicine.uiowa.edu/mri/facility-resources/images/visible-human-project-ct-datasets

  • The Visible Human Project-Reduced Data Sets (Normal [Fresh] CT scan data sets for both the male and female in reduced resolution - the University of Wisconsin).
  • Voxel- Man Gallery ( images and animations of the torso from the University of Hamburg). If you’re looking at an archived version of this page and the hyperlink to the left doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser  https://www.voxel-man.com/gallery/visible-human/torso-and-inner-organs/

  • daVinci (prototype simulator for performing vascular catherterization and interventional radiology procedures - Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore).
  • Animating the Visible Human Data Set (Rutgers University, VIZLAB).  If you’re looking at an archived version of this page and the hyperlink to the left doesn't work, copy and paste this URL into your browser  https://wayback.archive-it.org/5215/20150205021044/http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20120702/research/visible/vhpconf2000/AUTHORS/GAGVANI/GAGVANI.PDF

  • 3D quilling art of cross sections of the human body using images from the Visible Human Project (by Visual artist Lisa Nilsson).
  • Peel-away Visible Human Movies for the Palm Pilot (Medical Multimedia Systems).

Last Reviewed: August 7, 2023