AN HYPERTEXTUAL INTRODUCTION TO THE
VISIBLE HUMAN DATASET - MILANO MIRROR SITE ®
by
Luciano Guglielmi (1) e Francesco Pinciroli (2)
(1) Technical manager in charge for "Visible Human Dataset - Milano Mirror Site" at
CILEA - e-mail: guglielmi@cilea.itAfter an excursus over "Visible Human Project" background, are taken in care the methods used for "Visible Human Dataset" construction. Rules today in use for having free access to data are then showed.
Motivations, goals and collaborations that have physically made possible to setup the structure and the services of the "Visible Human Dataset - Milano Mirror Site" (http://vhd-mms.cilea.it/), are showed in detail.
On VHD-MMS web site is also available the free license agreement that, who want to use the Visible Human Dataset original data must sign directly with US National Library of Medicine.
1 - The origins: US National Library of Medicine "Visible Human Project"
1.1 - the ideas ( 1 , 2 )
1.2 - the progress ( 1 )
1.3 - the announce ( 1 )
2 - "Visible Human Dataset" construction: the greatest bioimages dataset on the world
2.1 - CT and MR images ( 1 , 2 , 3 )
2.2 - fullcolor images ( 1 )
2.3 - search of the candidates and relative choise ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 )
2.4 - sections ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 )
2.5 - alignements of different kind of images ( 1 )
2.6 - digital store of data
2.6.1 - summary ( 1 )
2.6.2 - data format ( 1 )
2.6.3 - archive content ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 )
2.6.4 - amount of archive data ( 1 )
2.7 - images and application examples
2.7.1 - fullcolor ( 1 )
2.7.2 - normal CT ( 1 )
2.7.3 - frozen CT ( 1 )
2.7.4 - normal MRI ( 1 )
2.7.5 - an application for the visualization of the data ( 1 )
3 - "Visible Human Dataset" access policy
3.1 - phisical access ( 1 )
3.2 - amministrative access ( 1 )
4 - "Visible Human Dataset - Milano Mirror Site"
4.1 - motivations ( 1 )
4.2 - goals ( 1 )
4.3 - promoters and sponsors ( 1 , 2 )
4.4 - technical choises
4.4.1 - criteria ( 1 )
4.4.2 - hardware and software ( 1 )
4.4.3 - network connections ( 1 )
4.4.4 - Internet Web site ( 1 )
4.5 - services offered by VHD-MMS
4.5.1 - professional and uninterrupted assistance ( 1 )
4.5.2 - uninterrupted access to the data via FTP, also possible via a WEB interface( 1 )
4.5.3 - VHD-MMS more qualified services
4.5.3.1 - collection of products based on the "Visible Human Dataset" ( 1 )
4.5.3.2 - multi-language WEB site ( 1 )
4.5.3.3 - disk space for repository of application based on VHD ( 1 )
4.5.3.4 - contributes for academic degrees ( 1 )
4.5.3.5 - "Help us to serve you better..."( 1 )