Virtual
Liver
The
virtual human liver was my thesis research project which took place inside of
the University of Illinois at Chicago's Virtual Reality of Medicine Laboratory.
Starting with human scan data provided by the National Library of Medicine's
Visible Human, I used a number of PC and UNIX platform-based applications to
create virtual segmented models of the liver, hepatic vein and portal vein.
These models were then exported to the Immersadesk, a unique 3D visualization
tool that allows for true stereoscopic interactive viewing of complex environments.
Plans are underway to utilize this model as part of the University's medical
school curriculum in the year 2001. This model was featured in a spring 2001
edition of Internet Healthcare magazine. The movie clip above gives a taste
of the interactivity involved in this model as the viewer can view each segment
at a time.
