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"VISIBLE HUMAN
DATASET-MILANO
MIRROR SITE®"
Additional Services for the Primers and the Professional Users of
the VHD
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Luciano Guglielmi, M.S.
Technical manager in charge for "VISIBLE HUMAN DATASET - MILANO
MIRROR SITE®" at CILEA, Italy
guglielmi@cilea.it
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Francesco Pinciroli, Professor
Coordinator of the "VISIBLE HUMAN DATASET - MILANO MIRROR SITE®"
at CILEA
Chair of Medical Informatics - Bioengineering Department
- Politecnico of Milano, Italy
pinciroli@biomed.polimi.it
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Abstract
The "VISIBLE
HUMAN DATASET
- MILANO MIRROR
SITE®"
(VHD-MMS), an initiative
of cooperation promoted between the National Library of Medicine and the
Politecnico di Milano, builted up thanks to CILEA, an italian Universities
consortium, and a team of four sponsors, has the mission of providing the
Continental-Europe users of the "Visible Human Dataset" with the best possible
services.
The "VISIBLE HUMAN
DATASET - MILANO
MIRROR SITE®"
(Figure 1) has the mission of providing the Continental-Europe users of
the "Visible Human Dataset" - i.e. the 55-Gigabytes largest bank of multimodal
bioimages we have never seen - with the best possible services, better
than those available while crossing the Atlantic Ocean on Internet. To
do so, it "mirrors", i.e. it repeats, in Milano the entire "Visible Human
Dataset", originally made available at the Bethesda main-site of the National
Library of Medicine only. But not only. It have built up various services
ad hoc for its users. This effort has been supported from four non-competitive
multinational sponsors, two of them with head home in USA and two in Italy,
with a large penetration on users inside Europe. The "VISIBLE
HUMAN DATASET
- MILANO MIRROR
SITE®"
(VHD-MMS) is an initiative of cooperation promoted between the National
Library of Medicine and the Politecnico di Milano. It has been built up
with the technical help and the administrative assistance of CILEA. This
is the more than 25 y.h. Consortium established, among the universities
of the Lombardia region, for organizing and delivering services of advanced
calculus.
Following this goal the "VISIBLE
HUMAN DATASET
- MILANO MIRROR
SITE®"
has decided to set up a CD-ROM, named BIOIMAGES FOR EUROPE, distributed
free of charge, starting point for who want to see what is the data and
which kind of application one can do with it. So the product should be
for primers but also for advanced users.
A lot are the questions one have to answer daily about VHD and its
application fields. We have then thought to build an hypertextual introduction
to VHD and VHD-MMS, ready to use and freely available.
The tutorial should be an introduction to all the aspects of both male
and female dataset.
After an excursus over "Visible Human Project"
background, the methods used for "Visible Human Dataset" construction
are taken in care. Rules, today in use, for having free access to data
are then showed. Motivations, goals and collaborations that have physically
made possible to setup the structure and the services of the "VISIBLE
HUMAN DATASET
- MILANO MIRROR
SITE®"
(http://vhd-mms.cilea.it/),
are showed in detail.
Keywords: Tutorial, CD-ROM, Medical Specialties.
Table of Contents
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CD-ROM
"BioImages for Europe"
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Hypertextual Tutorial about VHP
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