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This paper presents a web-based three-dimensional (3D) navigation system
for a spinal disease ontology using a 3Dvirtual human spine. The 3Dnavigation system
consists of three main modules: a query module for finding spinal diseases and their
causes and treatments from the spinal disease ontology via a web page, a 3D rendering
module for rendering the virtual human spine on a web browser, and a visualization module to view the retrieved ontology information by connecting it with the virtual
human spine. It was implemented using Virtuosos SPARQL, Java, JavaScript, Jena
API, JDBC, AJAX, HTML5,WebGL, and SVGusing aVirtuoso server on theWeb via
JSP web pages. Spine specialists can navigate and simulate spinal diseases using the
3D navigation system via virtual experiments based on the ontological interrelations,
allowing them to make more accurate diagnoses of spinal diseases.