Visible Human Slice Web Server: a first assessment

Roger David Hersch; Benoit A. Gennart; Oscar Figueiredo; Marc Mazzariol; Joaquin Tarraga; S. Vetsch; Vincent Messerli; R. Welz; Luc Marie Bidaut

doi:10.1117/12.373466

20 December 1999 Visible Human Slice Web Server: a first assessment

Roger David Hersch, Benoit A. Gennart, Oscar Figueiredo, Marc Mazzariol, Joaquin Tarraga, S. Vetsch, Vincent Messerli, R. Welz, Luc Marie Bidaut

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Proceedings Volume 3964, Internet Imaging; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373466
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Visible Human Slice Server started offering its slicing services at the end of June 1998. From that date until the end of May, more than 280,000 slices were extracted from the Visible Man, by layman interested in anatomy, by students and by specialists. The Slice Server is based one Bi-Pentium PC and 16 disks. It is a scaled down version of a powerful parallel server comprising 5 Bi-Pentium Pro PCs and 60 disks. The parallel server program was created thanks to a computer-aided parallelization framework, which takes over the task of creating a multi-threaded pipelined parallel program from a high-level parallel program description. On the full blown architecture, the parallel program enables the extraction and resampling of up to 5 color slices per second. Extracting 5 slice/s requires to access the disks and extract subvolumes of the Visible Human at an aggregate throughput of 105 MB/s. The publicly accessible server enables to extract slices having any orientation. The slice position and orientation can either be specified for each slice separately or as a position and orientation offered by a Java applet and possible future improvements. In the very near future, the Web Slice Server will offer additional services, such as the possibility to extract ruled surfaces and to extract animations incorporating slices perpendicular to a user defined trajectory.

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Roger David Hersch, Benoit A. Gennart, Oscar Figueiredo, Marc Mazzariol, Joaquin Tarraga, S. Vetsch, Vincent Messerli, R. Welz, and Luc Marie Bidaut "Visible Human Slice Web Server: a first assessment", Proc. SPIE 3964, Internet Imaging, (20 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373466

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