As part of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Denver Center for Orthopaedic Biomechanics has made available a repository of 3D models of the human lower extremities created from the Visible Human Female and Male imaging datasets.
Complete 3D musculoskeletal geometries were extracted from the National Libraries of Medicine Visible Human Female and Male cryosections. Muscle, bone, cartilage, ligament, and fat from the pelvis to the ankle were digitized and exported in shareable formats and made available for download. While a substantial amount of published work has been derived from the Visible Human Project, this is the first time a large number of musculoskeletal 3D geometries are being made available to the public that include both the male and female specimens. In total 260 geometries from the Visible Human Male and Female were extracted from the cryosections consisting of 76 muscles, 28 bones, 16 cartilages, 8 ligaments, and 2 fat geometries per subject. The library is available at multiple layers of processing and in a final form with no overlap between individual structures. This library is made available to motivate continued work in multi-scale, high-fidelity musculoskeletal modeling and promote reuse and continued development of the dataset.
To access the online library, visit https://digitalcommons.du.edu/visiblehuman/#.
