Abstract:
This paper presents a way to make a hepatobiliary pancreatic FE (Finite Element) model from medical images preserving the structural topology for dynamic surgery simulati...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper presents a way to make a hepatobiliary pancreatic FE (Finite Element) model from medical images preserving the structural topology for dynamic surgery simulation. Medical images are generally composed of a sequence of sliced images, and they can be transformed into a 3D geometric model by using any image analyzing software. However, because of incompleteness of the geometric model transformed from the sliced images, volume meshing (FE model generation) is not very easy. In order to cope with the incompleteness of the geometric model, embedding is used, in which the geometric model is embedded into hexahedral meshes. If multiple parts of different segments are included in a hexahedral element, the element is replicated for each segment using SLPs: Separation Label Pairs to preserve structural topology. Haptic simulation was performed using the generated hepato-biliary-pancreatic FE model.
Date of Conference: 12-15 January 2020
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 09 March 2020
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