EUROPE - (HealthTech Wire / News) - Super Computing Solutions –SCS- and the Computational Bioengineering Lab –BIC- by the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna (Italy) are happy to announce the release of the first dataset that composes the Living Human Digital Library –LHDL- multiscale musculoskeletal data collection. The data represent the three-dimensional skeletal anatomy of the cadaver of a 78 years old woman with normal morphology (height: 171 cm, weight: 64 kg, from now on referred to as “LHDL_Donor1”).
From today the consortium will start releasing various datasets with a cadence of two weeks. By the end of the 2010 the entire LHDL multiscale collection on LHDL_Donor1 will be made available.
The bone surfaces of LHDL_Donor1 were obtained from the segmentation of whole body Computer Tomography (CT) images, in three stages:
- A qualified technician performed gross segmentation;
- A senior anatomist performed a refinement of the segmentation on all bones. Joint surfaces were segmented in order to respect joint morphology;
- 3D polygonal surface models were generated for the external surface of each bone.
The bone surfaces can be downloaded from the PhysiomeSpace service at
www.physiomespace.com/ps_home and freely used for no profit research purposes under the LHDL license agreement www.physiomespace.com/public/LHDLdata_Licence. The service currently provides free accounts with up to 1 Gb of on-line storage space. A license for commercial use of the LHDL data collection is also available. If you wish to have more information on this matter please contact: bic@ior.it.
How to access the PhysiomeSpace resources
To be able to access the LHDL multiscale collection, you firstly need to:
- register to the BiomedTown portal,
- subscribe to the PhysiomeSpace user group,
- install the PSLoader© client application.
For more detailed instructions, please read the “How to get access to the service” section, at www.physiomespace.com/access.
You are now ready to download the data repository. Go to www.physiomespace.com/ps_home and:
- Search within the available data resources and then add those you wish to download to your basket, clicking on the shopping cart icon next to it. Now you are ready to download the resource with PSLoader©.
- Open PSLoader© and authenticate, inserting BT username and password.
- To finalise the download into PSLoader©, follow this path: Operations>Manage>Download from basket. Proceed saving the data. A window called “Download from basket” will open, listing the resources currently in your basket.
- At the end of the download process, the downloaded data resources will appear in the PSLoader© data tree, and you can start working on them.
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Source: The Living Human Digital Library (LHDL)
