Sharing and reusing cardiovascular anatomical models over the Web: A step towards the implementation of the virtual physiological human project

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1921, 2010, Pages 3039-3056

  Gianni, Daniele ^a   Mckeever, Steve ^a   Yu, Tommy ^b   Britten, Randall ^b   Delingette, Hervé ^c   Frangi, Alejandro ^d   Hunter, Peter ^b   Smith, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c INRIA   (France)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anatomical model; CellML; Database; EuHeartDB; Heart; Model sharing

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HEART; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METADATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANATOMICAL MODELS; CARDIAC SIMULATION; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MODELS; CURRENT-SHARING; DATA ACCESS; DATA FORMAT; DISEASE DIAGNOSIS; HEART MODEL; MODEL REPOSITORIES; PHYSIOME; RENDERING ENGINE; STATIC MODEL; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATIONS; VIRTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN; WEB PAGE; WEB-ENABLED DATABASE;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CYTOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MYOCARDIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77954505795     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0025     Document Type: Article

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