One of the most important issue in soft tissue modeling is to assess the quality of the simulations. A validation protocol is presented based on two CT scans of the patient acquire...
Matthieu Chabanas, Christophe Marecaux, Franz Chou...
University of Bern, Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics
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Mauricio Reyes Aguirre is the head of the Medical Image Analysis group at the Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He received...
We describe the use of compact support radial basis functions (CSRBFs) for simulation of soft tissue deformation. CSRBFs allow surface and volumetric deformations to be computed i...
Mark P. Wachowiak, Xiaogang Wang, Aaron Fenster, T...
The estimation of soft tissue deformation from 3D image sequences is an important problem in a number of fields such as diagnosis of heart disease and image guided surgery. In thi...
Xenophon Papademetris, Pengcheng Shi, Donald P. Di...
Models that predict the soft tissue deformation caused by needle insertion could improve the accuracy of procedures such as brachytherapy and needle biopsy. Prior work on needle in...
Jessica R. Crouch, Chad M. Schneider, Josh Wainer,...