# Visible Human Female CT skeleton

Seyed Hamidreza Alavi and Malte Asseln, BoneHub / University of Twente, **Visible-Human-3d-Models** (2026), [DOI 10.57967/HF/10464](https://doi.org/10.57967/HF/10464). Licensed [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). [Pinned source](https://huggingface.co/datasets/BoneHub/visible-human-3d-models/tree/ac8de2b38f5ae1a0996053ca0639dd6ae43358f1).

Derived from NLM Visible Human Female imagery aligned and released by the University of Denver: Thor E. Andreassen, Donald R. Hume, Landon D. Hamilton, Karen E. Walker, Sean E. Higinbotham, Kevin B. Shelburne, **Three Dimensional Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Geometry of the Visible Human Female and Male**, Scientific Data 10, 34 (2023), [DOI 10.1038/s41597-022-01905-2](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01905-2), [female data](https://digitalcommons.du.edu/visiblehuman/1/), CC BY 4.0.

Local adaptations: millimetre LPS coordinates rigidly rotated to metre Y-up coordinates and translated to a common ground/center; coincident positions welded; area-weighted normals computed and quantized; byte-packed and gzip-compressed. Large labels are split only into rendering primitives. No triangles discarded, missing elbows filled, anatomy deformed or fit to another model. See provenance.json for every source SHA-256 and the exact transform.

A real 59-year-old Visible Human Female CT specimen; individual morphology and variation are not a universal female template.

143 source bone labels, not 206 individually separated bones. Phalanges are grouped by digit; cranium/maxilla and sacrum/coccyx are combined; sternum is undivided.

Source CT has missing elbow-region data: distal humeri and proximal radii/ulnae are incomplete. No invented bone has been added to fill these gaps.

No hyoid, costal cartilage or small sesamoids (except patellae). Ribs therefore do not have rendered cartilaginous connections to the sternum.

Source records a sixth lumbar-labeled vertebra in this specimen; do not teach it as the usual five-lumbar reference pattern.

Model-assisted segmentation reviewed by two trained annotators; no inter-rater reliability or independent clinical certification is reported.

This is an independent native-coordinate skeleton study. It is not spatially registered to the HRA organ model or the Denver muscle model and must not be grafted onto either.