This paper presents a survey of the state-of-the-art deformable models studied in the
literature, with regard to soft tissue deformable modeling for interactive surgical simulation. It …

The emergence of new cardiac diagnostics and therapeutics of the heart has given rise to
the challenging field of virtual design and testing of technologies in a patient-specific …

Correctly capturing intraoperative brain shift in image-guided neurosurgical procedures is a
critical task for aligning preoperative data with intraoperative geometry for ensuring accurate …

Objectives Accurate reconstruction and visualisation of soft tissue deformation in real time is
crucial in image-guided surgery, particularly in augmented reality (AR) applications. Current …

Physically realistic simulations for large breast deformation are of great interest for many
medical applications such as cancer diagnosis, image registration, surgical planning and …

Intraoperative brain shift during neurosurgical procedures is a well‐known phenomenon
caused by gravity, tissue manipulation, tumor size, loss of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and use …

The ability to predict patient-specific soft tissue deformations is key for computer-integrated
surgery systems and the core enabling technology for a new era of personalized medicine …

This paper presents main theses of two keynote lectures delivered at Euromech Colloquium
“Advanced experimental approaches and inverse problems in tissue biomechanics” held in …

It has been envisaged that advances in computing and engineering technologies could
extend surgeons' ability to plan and carry out surgical interventions more accurately and with …

This paper presents an effective three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear explicit dynamic
meshfree algorithm for the simulation of soft tissue mechanical responses. In the algorithm …