Virtual Human Modeling A Student Endeavor

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Virtual Human Modeling -A Student Endeavor

• Virtual Human Computational Environment
• Eduardo Difilippo, SULI 1999
• Dan Price, SULI 2000
• Joy Wright, PST, 2000
• Ming Gu, GLCA 2001
• Integrated Respiratory System Modeling
• Jacob McMurray, SULI 2000
• Todd Miller, CCT 2000
• Erica Sherritze, PST 2003
• Human Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (Kara Kruse)
• Wiliam Jenkins, SULI 2001
• Joel Outten, SULI 2002
• Virtual Soldier Project (DARPA)
• Gary Atkins, RAMS 2004
• Sarah Wing, SULI 2004

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Eduardo Difilippo, Dan Price, Ming Gu, others
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Erica Sherritze
Expanded Multi-branch Asymmetric Bifurcations
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The Virtual Soldier ProjectUsing 3-Dimensional
Models As A Front End For Knowledge
Gary T. Atkins Fisk University Mentor
Richard C. Ward Affiliation Research
Alliance in Math and Science August 9, 2004
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• Purpose Transform the way
• we view, study and interact
• with information about the
• human body
• Focus on the human heart
• Provide capability to
• diagnose battlefield injuries,
• specifically penetrating
• wounds to the heart

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Overview of Gary Atkins Project

• PURPOSE
• Provide support to DARPA Virtual Soldier Project
• GOALS
• Display a three-dimensional (3D) model of the
  human thorax using Visualization ToolKit (VTK)
• Connect anatomy to Foundational Model of Anatomy
  (an anatomy ontology) using both Web site and Web
  services

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VTK Program Displays Surfaces of Organ Segments

• Displays each organ segment as it traverses that
  segment
• Emulates a bullet wound to the right ventricle
• Surfaces rendered using VTK
• Program obtained from Bill Lorensen, GE Global
  Research

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Anatomy Ontology

• Defines terms used to
• describe and represent an
• area of knowledge
• Used by people,
  
• databases, and
• applications that require
• domain information
• Include computer-usable
• definitions of
• relationships between
• concepts

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Linking 3D Imagery to Ontology
Use both FME Web site and Web services
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The Development of Sophisticated Cardiac Models
for Use in the Virtual Soldier Project
Sarah Wing Davidson College Richard Ward, Mentor
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Results of Web service data, plotted using Tcl/Tk
Injury to left ventricle of the heart using
model supplied by U. of Washington
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Summary

• Students learned
• Visualization Concepts
• Representations of Information in Ontologies
• Practical programming in Java, Tcl/Tk and VTK
• Integration of software components
• Concepts that are applicable to real world
• IT Industry
• e-Commerce
• Games development
• Animation industry
• Modeling and simulation