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Cyber surgery: Parameterized mesh for multi-modal surgery simulation

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This paper presents a new method for modeling of virtual organs for surgery simulation. The organ models have a parameterized representation that supports real-time interactive deformation. To accomplish real-time interaction with deformable organs, instead of computing the deformation on the 3D organ models in 3D space we use a novel yet simple and fast free-form deformation on the 2D parameterized representation itself. With the parameterized mesh, we also demonstrate that realistic visual and haptic rendering can be provided for interactive surgery simulation.

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

    Liu Q. & Prakash E. C.

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Qiang Liu: He received his B. Eng. in computer science and technology in 2002 from Zhejiang University, China. He is currently a Ph.D student in the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include virtual reality, computer graphics, computer animation, and 3D visualization.

Edmond Cyril Prakash: He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Ph.D degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Edmond’s research focus is on exploring the applications of visualization in engineering, science, medicine, finance and entertainment. He also serves as a Research Director for the gameLAB at NTU, Singapore.

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Liu, Q., Prakash, E.C. Cyber surgery: Parameterized mesh for multi-modal surgery simulation. J Vis 9, 373–380 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03181776

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