%0 Journal Article
%T Extracting Three Dimensional Surface Model of Human Kidney from the Visible Human Data Set using Free Software
%A Kirana P. KUMARA
%J Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologies
%D 2012
%I AcademicDirect
%X Three dimensional digital model of a representative human kidney is needed for a surgical simulator that is capable of simulating a laparoscopic surgery involving kidney. Buying a three dimensional computer model of a representative human kidney, or reconstructing a human kidney from an image sequence using commercial software, both involve (sometimes significant amount of) money. In this paper, author has shown that one can obtain a three dimensional surface model of human kidney by making use of images from the Visible Human Data Set and a few free software packages (ImageJ, ITK-SNAP, and MeshLab in particular). Images from the Visible Human Data Set, and the software packages used here, both do not cost anything. Hence, the practice of extracting the geometry of a representative human kidney for free, as illustrated in the present work, could be a free alternative to the use of expensive commercial software or to the purchase of a digital model.
%K Visible human data set
%K Kidney
%K Surface model
%U http://lejpt.academicdirect.org/A20/115_126.pdf