They have collected transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of a representative male cadaver at 1 mm intervals and of a female at 0.3mm. . The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.
Work is currently in progress on the segmentation and classification of the images.
D-Lib magazine article about the Visible Human Project. A sampler of images and animations from the Project. October 1996 Visible Human Project Conference Proceedings on CD-ROM . The information presented here is identical to that distributed on CD-ROM to conference attendees.