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Web-based System

For Visual Examination Of Bones For Use In Forensic Pathology

Human Osteology is a subject that is a branch of anatomy and focus on the bones and the bony structures of an organism. It represents a thread that binds all the researches and investigations that find out information about human bones around the world. During the investigations, Anatomists, forensic scientists, osteologists, paleontologists, and archeologists often make use of their knowledge of human osteology to recovering and interpreting the bones of the human remains in their work.

But until now, many work about Human Osteology have still based on the paper work. Designing a convenient software about Human Osteology is necessary and will make the scientists get twice the result with half the effort. It is the main aim of this project.

The purpose of this project is to build an interactive Web-based system that can be used to assist in recording notes about bones under study. The System uses a visual interface in which the user picks the relevant bone from a skeleton. The bone is then visualised and can be rotated or zoomed in on. General text information about the bone is also displayed. The user can annotate the bone with information recorded from the real bone. More Detail...

This project will follow on from the initial work being undertaken by Xavier Langevin in his third year undergraduate dissertation project(2001/2002). It will be finally made in conjuncion with Brooke Magnanti who come from the department of forensic pathology.