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Collaborative Simulation of Soft-Tissue Deformation for Virtual Surgery Applications

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A key challenge of collaborative surgical simulation is to maintain a high level of state consistency among the distributed users under the limitation of network transmission capacity. In this paper, a framework integrating a scalable deformable model and an extensible communication protocol is proposed to meet this challenge. The parameters of the deformable model are obtained by making reference to the biomechanical properties of human soft tissues. Efficient collaboration is achieved by developing the communication protocol and implementing a series of network management approaches, including service management, computation policies, coupling control, token control and availability mechanism. A prototype has been developed by using the client-server network architecture. Experimental results demonstrate that this framework can support collaborative surgical simulation with acceptable network latencies.

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The work described in this paper was supported in part by the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Project no. CUHK4461/05M, PolyU 5147/06E and PolyU 5145/05E).

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong

    Jing Qin & Pheng-Ann Heng

  2. Centre for Integrative Digital Health, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Kup-Sze Choi

  3. Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Integration Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences/The Chinese University of Hongkong Shekou, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China

    Pheng-Ann Heng

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Qin, J., Choi, KS. & Heng, PA. Collaborative Simulation of Soft-Tissue Deformation for Virtual Surgery Applications. J Med Syst 34, 367–378 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-008-9249-2

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