Visualization and interactive assembling of digital human skeleton

Author

Liu, Kai ; Hong, Bo ; Li, Yinbo ; Gao, Shangkai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

2621

Abstract

A digital human skeleton based on the Visible Human Project (VHP) dataset is constructed for the purpose of remote education. Firstly, each bone is reconstructed from the segmented 2D images using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK). The 3D skeleton data are then converted into Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) format. Finally, the 3D bone models can be observed, grasped virtually and assembled interactively on remote terminal computers with VRML browsers.

Keywords

biomedical education; computerised tomography; image reconstruction; image segmentation; medical image processing; orthopaedics; virtual reality; 3D bone models; Virtual Reality Modeling Language; Visible Human Project; bone reconstruction; digital human skeleton; female CT scans; interactive assembling; medical diagnostic imaging; visualization; Assembly; Bones; Computer science education; Data visualization; Humans; Image converters; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Skeleton; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053458

Filename

1053458