Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Fig. 13.6
The Google body browser
The human body anatomy is very complex and specific for different instances
but in this case the user may visualize the general anatomical structure. The most
interesting feature of this project is that each of the 3D body parts is segmented and
tagged with knowledge at different scales.
If we consider the 'Knee', we can visualize the knee district from different per-
spectives, like the skin of the knee, the muscles involved in its articulation, the con-
stituting bones and the blood vessels running through that particular district. Specific
bones such as the femur can be searched by keyword and their position as well as
their connection with other body parts are then visualized (see Fig.
13.6
).
13.2.4 Bodyparts 3D
BodyParts 3D [
8
,
9
] is a dictionary-type database for anatomy in which anatomical
concepts are represented by 3D structured data that specify corresponding segments
of a 3D whole-body model for an adult human male. It encompasses morphological
and geometrical knowledge of anatomy and complements with ontological repre-
sentations. Nowadays, 382 anatomical concepts have been specified; the expansion
of the dictionary by adding further segments and details to the whole body model
will continue in collaboration with clinical researchers until sufficient resolution and
accuracy for most clinical applications are achieved.
