Before I created this application, medical students shared one set of photographs of a cross section dissection. By digitizing the photographs combining them in Flash and adding labels, each student can now study these images anytime, anywhere. Users can turn the labels on and off for practice and zoom in and out of each image to see details as needed. Students can test their knowledge of anatomy through labeling exercises and questions that emulate the experience of the Medical Board exams. Members of my team presented the application at an experimental biology conference and generated much interest from the attending educators and publishers.
As this project progressed, its scope continued to expand. (Internal projects in educational institutions run quite differently than projects in the corporate world, here new functionality and features are encouraged during a project.) We added radiograph images (x-rays and CT scans), sagital and coronal sections, and a mini-window where a user can scroll through the entire body, in slices. This project has gone on to inspire a couple of spin-offs. Using the same Flash and ActionScript framework, other similar types of applications can be easily created.