Visible Human Dataset color image histograms: 3D web juggler

In front of the relevant number of successful researches involving the Visible Human Dataset (VHD) data, today, we still have to deal with the best ways for a completely automatic detection of the anatomical structures present in the VHD thousands of images. In contouring the anatomical structures (on a single VHD slice, or on a chosen slice set) we believe that there is no way to obtain good results if the color characteristics of the images are not known in deep, with quantified details. A colorimetric characterization of the all about nine thousand VHD cryosectional cross-section color images of the Female and Male Datasets is described here. An on-line three-dimensional immersive environment to navigate through our colorimetric characterization is also introduced. Real-time analysis of color component characteristics of a user defined set of VHD images is now possible. This is a resource potentially useful to many developers working on the VHD raw data, and it could be used in medical education too.

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