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Conference Program

Thursday, October 5, 2000

8:45 - 9:00 WELCOME
  Steven Phillips, M.D.
Deputy Director for Research and Education, National Library of Medicine 
Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications, National Library of Medicine,
Project Officer, Visible Human Project
9:00 - 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
  Volumetric Imaging for the Media 
Alexander Tsiaras
President and Chief Executive Officer
Anatomical Travelogue Inc.
9:30 - 10:30 PANEL: 21st Century Anatomy: Fusion of the Basic Sciences
  Donald P. Jenkins, Ph.D., Moderator
Osvaldo Bustos, M.D., Assistant Professor,
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Thomas R. Gest, Ph.D., Associate Professor,
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Daniel O. Graney, Ph.D., Professor,
University of Washington School of Medicine
Charles E. Slonecker, D.D.S., Ph.D., Acting Vice President External Affairs,
University of British Columbia
Branislav Vidic, S.D., Professor,
Texas Tech School of Medicine
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 1: Education
  Donald P. Jenkins, Ph.D., Chair
NLM Program Brief: A Digital Human Vision
Peter Ratiu, M.D. - Nitpicking the Visible Human Female:
Pathology, Artifacts, and Image Properties
Donald D. Rigamonti, Ph.D. - Implementing Anatomic VisualizeR
Learning Modules in Anatomy Education
Judith M. Venuti, Ph.D. - 3D Visualization of the Male Pelvis and
Perineum: An Argument for Revision of Classic Representations of the Region
Christian D. Werner, Ph.D. - The Visible Man Dataset in Medical
Education: Electrophysiology of the Human Heart
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 SESSION 2: Web Applications SESSION 3: Animation
  Michael J. Ackerman, Ph.D., Chair 
Holger Jastrow, Dr. med. - A Visible Human Online Reference for Medical Education and Research: Workshop Anatomy for the Internet
Sebastian Gerlach -
The Real-Time Interactive Visible Human Navigator
James F. Brinkley, M.D., Ph.D. - Visible Human, Construct Thyself: The Digital Anatomist Dynamic Scene Generator
Victor M. Spitzer, Ph.D. - The Visible Human Project ATLAS of Functional Human Anatomy Version 1.0 The Head and Neck
Charles Sneiderman, M.D., Ph.D., Chair 
Steven Senger, Ph.D. - Harnessing Remote Computation to Visualize and Segment the Visible Human Datasets Over the NGI
Deborah Silver, Ph.D. -
Animating the Visible Human Dataset
Edmund C. Prakash, Ph.D. - An Advanced Data Type for Animation of the Visible Male and Female
Jean-Christophe Bessaud - The Visible Human Slice Sequence Animation Web Server
3:00 - 3:30 BREAK
3:30 - 5:00 SESSION 4: Segmentation / Image Manipulation
  Terry S. Yoo, Ph.D., Chair
NLM Program Brief: Insight Consortium
Celina Imielinska, Ph.D. - Hybrid Segmentation of the Visble Human
Data
Peter Ratiu, Ph.D. - Squaring the Circle: Validation Without Ground
Truth
Don R. Hilbelink, Ph.D. - Use of a Point-to-Point Method to Morph
Images of the Visible Human Project
Shigeru Muraki - An Attempt to Develop Color Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) Using Visible Human Data
5:00 - 7:00 RECEPTION

Friday, October 6, 2000

9:00 - 10:30 SESSION 5: Networking SESSION 6: Simulation / Modeling I
  Paul Fontelo, M.D., M.P.H., Chair
NLM Program Brief: Next Generation Internet (NGI)
Arthur W. Wetzel - Representation and Performance Issues in Navigating Visible Human Datasets
Brian Athey - Towards a Visible Human National Educational Collaboratory
(An impromptu presentation to fill a void in the program)
Brian Wannamaker -
The Distributed Visible Human Explorer
Sunanda Mitra, Ph.D. - An Innovative Web-Based System for High Lossless Compression and Fast, Interactive Transmission of Visible Human Color Images
Victor Carr, Ed.D., Chair 

Frank B. Sachse, Ph.D. - Modeling the Anatomy of the Human Heart Using the Cryosection Images of the Visible Female Dataset
Costantino Ciallella - Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Cranial Shooting Injuries by a Cranial Model Based on the Visible Human Project
(Due to illness, this paper was not presented)
Ziji Wu - Three-Dimensional Volume Mesh Generation of Human Organs Using Surface Geometries Created from the Visible Human Dataset
Edmund C. Prakash, Ph.D. - An Algorithm for Voxel Apparel Synthesis for the Visible Female

10:30-11:00 BREAK
11:00 -12:30 SESSION 7: Simulation / Modeling II
  Richard A. Banvard, M.A.., Chair 
Andreas Pommert, M.S. - A Highly Realistic Volume Model Derived
from the Visible Human Male
Wm. LeRoy Heinrichs, M.D., Ph.D. - A Stereoscopic Palpable and
Deformable Model: Lucy 2.5
Bharti Temkin, Ph.D. - Virtual Body Structures
(Due to illness, this paper was not presented)
Gregory L. Merril - Use of the Visible Humans in Medical Simulation
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 SESSION 8: Databases and Knowledge Representation
  Earl Henderson, Chair
NLM Program Brief: AnatLine
James H. Johnson, Ph.D. - A Path from the NLM's AnatLine Database
to 3D Virtual Reality Modeling Language Models
Francesco Pinciroli, Professore - Anatomical Knowledge Representation:
Attempting Querying Integration on VHD via the Unified Medical Language
System (UMLS)
Cornelius Rosse, M.D., D.Sc. - Visible Human Know Thyself:
The Digital Anatomist Structural Abstraction
Nina Wacholder, Ph.D. - Using the Visible Human Dataset to Represent
Part-Whole Relations in the Vesalius Navigational Ontology
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