Visible Human Project

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/visible_human_2007.htmlThe Visible Human Project was formulated in response to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) 1986 Long-Range Plan that challenged NLM staff to investigate the concept of an electronic image library. The Visible Human Data Sets are complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional data sets which allow the computer reconstruction of any part of the normal male and female bodies. The data sets consist of transverse CT, MRI, and cryosection images.

The Visible Human Data Sets may be used without charge, but a license with the NLM is required. In return for use of the data sets, the user must credit the NLM in any derived product and must send a copy of the product to the NLM. Many data set users display their products and research on their Web sites and have notified the Library of their availability. The NLM has created links to these user sites from its own Visible Human Project Web site at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html. This provides an access point to applications, sources, products, tools, and mirror sites using images from the Visible Human Project. The Visible Human Project has become an open, community-based project. It is in this spirit that NLM created this Visible Human Project bibliography. This bibliography includes and updates a previous edition made available in conjunction with the Third Visible Human Conference held in October 2000. It contains citations to the published literature that we have been able to identify through March 2007. Additionally, it includes citations from the Insight Toolkit (ITK), an open source, freely available, object-oriented software package for medical image processing, segmentation, and registration.

This publication is not copyrighted and may be freely reproduced. However any reproductions of this bibliography, in whole or in part, should include all credits. If you wish to cite this bibliography, the correct format is:

Burke, Cynthia; Patrias, Karen, compilers. Visible Human Project [bibliography on the Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2007 May [cited YYYY MMM DD]. (Current bibliographies in medicine; 2007-1). 912 citations from January 1987 through March 2007. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/visiblehuman2007.html

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