Complete Human Female 3D Skeleton Model Is Available for Download

The first dataset that composes the Living Human Digital Library (LHDL) multiscale musculoskeletal data collection represents the three-dimensional (3D) 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”).

The consortium responsible for the model, composed of Super Computing Solutions (SCS; Milan, Italyt) and the Computational Bioengineering Lab (BIC) of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (Bologna), released various datasets in July 2010. 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: (1) A qualified technician performed the gross segmentation on the project; (2) a senior anatomist performed a refinement of the segmentation on all bones--joint surfaces were segmented in order to respect joint morphology; (3) Lastly, 3D polygonal surface models were generated for the external surface of each bone.

The bone surfaces can be downloaded from the PhysiomeSpace service (please see Related Links below) and freely used for nonprofit research purposes under the LHDL license agreement, a link to which is also given below.The service currently provides free accounts with up to 1 Gb of online storage space. A license for commercial use of the LHDL data collection is also available.

Related Links:
Super Computing Solutions
Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
PhysiomeSpace
LHDL license agreement