SBIR Phase I: Digital Cadaver - An Immersive Environment for the Direct Reconstruction of Anatomical Data Sets

9861000 技术可以为学生提供没有访问个人尸体解剖的机会，体验解剖的逼真模拟，保留动手实验室经验的智力和教育价值。 Visible Productions，LLC的小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将专注于扩展原型系统的技术，为学生提供进行数字解剖的机会，并确定足以支持商业规模使用的强大的基于Java的实施的可行性。 该实现将包括一个Java客户端应用程序，该应用程序紧密集成到图像请求服务器的基于Web的接口中。 Web界面和图像服务器的集成将允许方便的图像缓存、检索和管理。 该架构将在本地计算和远程图像生成之间提供用户不可见的无缝接口。 除了提供独立于平台的解决方案之外，用Java实现客户端应用程序对于实现这种集成至关重要。 该项目将涉及原型系统未涉及的若干领域的研究。 具体而言，Java实现所需的数字染色算法的改进性能;本地分割文档的管理和与成像请求的透明传输到服务器;基于Web的用户界面允许学生私人，身份验证访问和管理从他们的请求产生的图像;以及一小群学生的beta测试。 该项目在解剖学领域提供了一种良好的教学方法，它将通过互联网将联合收割机实验室计算机与高端系统结合起来，学生可以使用这一平台，而无需机构获得高端技术。

9861000 Technology can provide students without access to individual cadaver dissection with an opportunity to experience realistic simulations of dissections that retain the intellectual and educational value of a hands-on laboratory experience. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from Visible Productions, LLC will focus on extending the technologies of a prototype system, which provide students with an opportunity to perform digital dissections, and on determining the feasibility of a robust Java-based implementation sufficient to support commercial scale use. The implementation will consist of a Java client application tightly integrated into a Web-based interface to the image request server. The integration of the Web interface and image server will allow for convenient image caching, retrieval, and management. This architecture will provide a seamless interface, invisible to the user, between local computation and remote image generation. In addition to offering a platform independent solution, the implementation of the client application in Java will be crucial to achieving this integration. The project will involve research into several areas not addressed by the prototype system. Specifically, performance of improvement of the digital staining algorithm required for Java implementation; management of local segmentation documents and transparent transmittal with imaging request to the server; Web-based user interface allowing students private, authenticated access to and management of the images produced from their requests; and beta testing with a small group of students. This project proffers a pedagogically sound approach in the area of anatomy, which will combine laboratory computers with a high-end system through the Internet in such a way, that students can use this platform without requiring the institution to acquire high-end technology.