Digitizing All Fish

Washington Scientist Launches Effort to Digitize All Fish

Phuong Le | July 27, 2016

University of Washington biology professor Adam Summers no longer has to coax hospital staff to use their CT scanners so he can visualize the inner structures of sting ray and other fish.
Last fall, he installed a small computed tomography, or CT, scanner at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories on San Juan Island in Washington state and launched an ambitious project to scan and digitize all of more than 25,000 species in the world.
The idea is to have one clearinghouse of CT scan data freely available to researchers anywhere to analyze the morphology, or structure, of particular species.
So far, he and others have digitized images of more than 500 species, from poachers to sculpins, from museum collections around the globe. He plans to add thousands more and has invited other scientists to use the CT scanner, or add their own scans to the open-access database.

Source: http://earth-chronicles.com/science/american-scientist-is-scanning-all-kinds-of-fish.html

[Click to Enlarge] (Open Science Framework. Fish digitization.) Source: https://osf.io/ez5th/

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