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The BioNetLab Anatomy Collaboratory
Author(s) -
Pescitelli Maurice J.,
Lilagan C.,
Huntley S.,
Landers S.,
Theiss E.,
Doyle M.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.24.1_supplement.827.3
Subject(s) - collaboratory , computer science , visualization , leverage (statistics) , world wide web , computer graphics , section (typography) , data science , information retrieval , computer graphics (images) , artificial intelligence , operating system
The BioNetLab Anatomy Collaboratory enables an online community of anatomy annotators to expand upon the collection of anatomy annotations in the Eolas AnatLab Virtual Anatomy Laboratory, and other image datasets. The AnatLab system is a Web‐based multidimensional atlas, which allows the user to browse through the Visible Human male data in multiple planes. Users can slice through the data and interactively query the knowledge base. The system responds by displaying the name of the anatomical structure and highlighting the extent of the structure on the section image being viewed, as well as linking to related information from Wikipedia and other sources. Anatlab has over 2500 structures identified, involving a total of over 4600 sections and 700,000 annotations overall. The present project is directed at creating a way to leverage current Web collaboration, visualization and social network technologies to allow large loosely‐coordinated teams of anatomy experts to dramatically enhance and expand the existing knowledgebase concerning this important dataset, and to extend this approach to create similar knowledgebases from other equally‐important anatomical image resources.