The VHP data sets were created under contract to NLM by the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (primary) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. NLM thanks the man and the woman who each willed their body to science, thereby enabling this project.
As of 2019, a license is no longer required to access the VHP datasets.ĭownload the VHP image data from the dataset About 4,000 licensees from 66 countries were authorized to access the datasets. The VHP data sets have been applied to a wide range of educational, diagnostic, treatment planning, virtual reality, artistic, mathematical, and industrial uses. The data sets were designed to serve as (1) a reference for the study of human anatomy, (2) public-domain data for testing medical imaging algorithms, and (3) a test bed and model for the construction of network-accessible image libraries. The Visible Man data set was publicly released in 1994 and the Visible Woman in 1995. Specifically, the VHP provides a public-domain library of cross-sectional cryosection, CT, and MRI images obtained from one male cadaver and one female cadaver. The NLM Visible Human Project has created publicly-available complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of a human male body and a human female body.