(Visualization of Anatomical Images Using the 3DSystems Database)
Ruixia Zhou, Ph.D.
Management Systems Designers
Vienna, VA, USA
Earl Henderson, James Seamans
Lister Hill National Center of Biomedical Communications
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
Abstract In order to efficiently distribute the image data
of Visible Human so that digital 3D-anatomy atlas can be supported, a prototype
database has been developed using the VHIF file format. To develop a test
platform of 3D anatomical atlas using the VHIF files, we developed VHDisplay
and VHVis. VHDisplay was developed to display the symbolic and imagery
anatomical information of three types of VHIF files: VHIF-CrossSection,
VHIF-VOI, VHIF-Rendered. VHVis was developed to visualize the 3D anatomical
structures of volume of interest in VHIF-VOI files. This module uses surface,
volume, and hybrid algorithms to render the anatomical structures. Several
rendered anatomical structures are shown in this paper. Our experiments
have shown that VHIF files provide necessary information for 2D and 3D
anatomical atlases.
