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The South American “Visible Human” Mirror Site

The South American “Visible Human” Mirror Site. The Center for Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. SA-VHD Project Leaders. Concept and Supervision

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The South American “Visible Human” Mirror Site

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  1. The South American “Visible Human” Mirror Site The Center for Biomedical Informatics State University of Campinas Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

  2. SA-VHD Project Leaders • Concept and Supervision • Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhDDirector, Center for Biomedical InformaticsProfessor and Chair, Medical Informatics,Faculty of Medical Sciences, UNICAMP • Current Project Director • Francesco Langone, PhDAssociate Director, Center for Biomedical InformaticsAssistant Professor, Anatomy and Physiology, Institute of Biology,UNICAMP • Founding Project Director • Silvia Helena Cardoso, PhDAssociate Researcher, Center for Biomedical InformaticsDistance Education Project CoordinatorEditor-in-Chief, Brain & Mind Magazine

  3. The Location of VHD Campinas Southeast regionState of São PauloTropic of CapricornSubtropical zone80 km north of S.Paulo

  4. What is Campinas • Second largest city of São Paulo state • 15th largest Brazilian city • 920.000 inhabitants • Center of a metropolitan area with 22 cities and 2.5 million inhabitants • 4,500 industriesBrazilian “Sillicon Valley”IBM, Compaq, Motorola, Lucent, Northern Telecom • 10% of Brazil’s GNP

  5. What Is UNICAMP • One of the three best universities of South America • 18700 students (42% graduate) • 2000 faculty (90 % full-time, 80 % doctors) • 20 schools and institutes • 42 undergraduate and 120 graduate courses • 1000 dissertations per year, 6200 research projects • 5000 Internet nodes • US$ 530 million budget

  6. The Center for Biomedical Informatics • Interdisciplinary research unit, founded 1983 • Advanced projects in AIM, distance education, virtual communities, electronic publications, image processing, multimedia. • Largest Internet health information site in Latin America • Masters and Doctoral post-graduate course www.nib.unicamp.br

  7. NIB/UNICAMP Internet Projects • The Brazilian Virtual Hospital • The Brazilian Virtual Veterinary Hospital • The Virtual Dental Center • The Virtual Sports Center • Virtual Health Sciences University • The e*pub Group www.hospvirt.org.br www.epub.org.br

  8. Medical Informatics Education • Since 1985 • Medical and Nursing undergraduates • Medicine and Biomedical Engineering graduates • Courses on Internet technologies • Courses on multimedia technologies • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine • Applications in medical education

  9. The e*pub ProjectEditorial Production www.epub.org.br

  10. Present Status • A contract with NLM was signed on October 1996 (Brazilian Embassy, Washington, DC) • Experimental server was set up in December 1996 • Sun Netrai with 9 Gb disk and 10 Mbps connection • Complete male head segment • HP RISC workstation with 3DViewNix • FTP service of raw and JPG images

  11. Present Status • Digital 2000 Alpha Server acquired (donation by pharmaceutical company) • 256 Mb RAM, 108 Gb disk • 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet and 155 Mbps ATM connections • FTP service of full male/female VHD • Origin SGI workstation to be acquired • WebForce multimedia server • VRML server

  12. VHD Dissemination Activities • Starting October 1996, participation in conferences, technical exhibits, talks and lectures in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay • Papers about SA-VHD on several medical informatics magazines • Interviews and reports with the press (main newspapers and weekly magazines) in Brazil and Argentina • TV interviews

  13. Brazilian Internet Connectivity

  14. Brazilian Internet Statistics • Access started in 1989 • 50,000 users in April 1995, limited to the academic sector • Opened to commercial access in September 1995 • Growth rate of 1,800% a year • Presently 2,500,000 users, 70% of Latin America hosts, main information provider south of the USA

  15. Current SA-VHD Projects • SA-VHD Home Page (Portuguese and Spanish) since August 1996 • Use in public education (neuroscience on-line magazine - Brain & Mind) • Use in a Virtual Neurobiology Course (WWW) • 3D reconstruction (3DViewNix) - course and projects • Multimedia anatomic atlases - neuroanatomy and general sectional anatomy (WWW) • Automatic and semi-automatic segmentation of brain images using neural networks and polygon fitting

  16. Using VHD images toteach neurosciencesto the non-specializedpublic www.epub.org.br/cm Brain & Mind Magazine

  17. Virtual Neurobiology Course Module:The Structureof the Brain

  18. Multimedia Neuroanatomic Atlas

  19. Virtual Anatomic Atlas

  20. Characteristics • Developed in HTML and JAVA for delivery over the WWW • Self-study of sectional anatomy using the Visible Human frozen section image base • Interactive labelling of anatomical structures • Self-quiz mode

  21. Development Methodologies • Platform-independent software tools • JAVA applets for local image control (zoom, brightness and contrast), structural identification and quizzing • JAVA scripting and cookies for contextual annotation

  22. Virtual Anatomic Atlas

  23. JAVA Anatomic Viewer

  24. Anatomic Quiz Mode

  25. Active Anatomic Notepad

  26. Future Scenarios • Stepping up the dissemination of VHD in South America • DVD-based offerings of the complete VHD • Functional/Anatomic virtual textbooks for distance education support • High performance graphics applications (gigabit networking)

  27. Contact Information • Renato M.E. SabbatiniCenter for Biomedical InformaticsState University of Campinas • PO Box 6005, Campinas SP 13081-970Brazil • Phone +55 19 289-9800 • Fax +55 19 788 7130 • Email: sabbatin@nib.unicamp.br

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