Deformable medical image registration: A survey

A Sotiras, C Davatzikos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deformable image registration is a fundamental task in medical image processing. Among
its most important applications, one may cite: 1) multi-modality fusion, where information …

Development of patient-specific biomechanical models for predicting large breast deformation

L Han, JH Hipwell, C Tanner, Z Taylor… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Physically realistic simulations for large breast deformation are of great interest for many
medical applications such as cancer diagnosis, image registration, surgical planning and …

A nonlinear biomechanical model based registration method for aligning prone and supine MR breast images

L Han, JH Hipwell, B Eiben, D Barratt… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Preoperative diagnostic magnetic resonance (MR) breast images can provide good contrast
between different tissues and 3-D information about suspicious tissues. Aligning …

Population of 224 realistic human subject‐based computational breast phantoms

DW Erickson, JR Wells, GM Sturgeon, E Samei… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To create a database of highly realistic and anatomically variable 3D virtual breast
phantoms based on dedicated breast computed tomography (bCT) data. Methods: A tissue …

Finite‐element modeling of compression and gravity on a population of breast phantoms for multimodality imaging simulation

GM Sturgeon, N Kiarashi, JY Lo, E Samei… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The authors are develo** a series of computational breast phantoms based on
breast CT data for imaging research. In this work, the authors develop a program that will …

Modeling and Estimation of Energy‐Based Hyperelastic Objects

E Miguel, D Miraut, MA Otaduy - Computer Graphics Forum, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we present a method to model hyperelasticity that is well suited for
representing the nonlinearity of real‐world objects, as well as for estimating it from …

Biomechanically guided prone-to-supine image registration of breast MRI using an estimated reference state

B Eiben, L Han, J Hipwell… - 2013 IEEE 10th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The female breast undergoes large scale deformations, when the patient position is
changed from the prone position where imaging is usually performed to the supine position …

Soft-tissue simulation of the breast for intraoperative navigation and fusion of preoperative planning

P Alcañiz, C Vivo de Catarina, A Gutiérrez… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Computational preoperative planning offers the opportunity to reduce surgery time and
patient risk. However, on soft tissues such as the breast, deviations between the …

Breast deformation modelling: comparison of methods to obtain a patient specific unloaded configuration

B Eiben, V Vavourakis, JH Hipwell… - Medical Imaging …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In biomechanical simulations of the human breast, the analysed geometry is often
reconstructed from in vivo medical imaging procedures. For example in dynamic contrast …

Iterative simulations to estimate the elastic properties from a series of MRI images followed by MRI-US validation

F Visentin, V Groenhuis, B Maris, D Dall'Alba… - Medical & biological …, 2019 - Springer
The modeling of breast deformations is of interest in medical applications such as image-
guided biopsy, or image registration for diagnostic purposes. In order to have such …