Download Visible Human Knowledge Base

Web Site, Database, Navigation
• Knowledge base = anatomy, relational
database, annotations
• Lecture, quiz, tour, etc = collaborative
navigation of knowledge space
• Current task =
build the relational
database
Other “Show and Tell”
• Web site, phase 1, in a stable and mature
state
• Collaborative tools from Pittsburgh and
through the use of Course Tools
• Building up a collection of multi-media
examples
Visible Human Knowledge Base
Annotation layer
• Hyperlinked texts
• Movies
• Sounds, etc
Semantic layer
• Medical lexicons
• Semantic relations
• Links to regions, volumes, and
annotations
Anatomical layer
• Labels of structures
• Voxel data and segmentation
• Volume surfaces
• Spatial relationships
Anatomical Layer
• Presentation of click-able slice data (click to
get full three-dimensional coordinate)
• 3D coordinate used to index
– Segmentation and label
– Volume/Surface descriptions
– Index into Semantic Layer
• Spatial relations to navigate to Anatomical
Layer level
Semantic Layer
• Multiple, related hierarchies of semantic
information: labels and relations
• A “navigation space” for relational
information
• Needs to be made accessible on the web
– Automatic web page generation for primitive
navigation?
Annotation Layer
• Multi-media annotations
• Developed from prototypes and scenarios
given by UI group
• With links into database