This article describes a series of contributions in the field of real-time simulation of soft tissue
biomechanics. These contributions address various requirements for interactive simulation …

An approach is developed to perform explicit time domain finite element simulations of
elastodynamic problems on the graphical processing unit, using Nvidiaʼs CUDA. Of critical …

The finite element method (FEM) is among the most commonly used numerical methods for
solving engineering problems. Due to its computational cost, various ideas have been …

This paper presents a numerical method for interactive (real-time) simulations, which
considerably improves the accuracy of the response of heterogeneous soft-tissue models …

Visual Computing for Medicine, Second Edition, offers cutting-edge visualization techniques
and their applications in medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book includes …

In this paper a non-exhaustive review is made on the existing literature for real-time
simulation in the field of computational surgery. Many methods have been proposed so far to …

Background Despite modern pharmacotherapy and advanced implantable cardiac devices,
overall prognosis and quality of life of HF patients remain poor. This is in part due to …

Efficient and accurate techniques for simulation of soft tissue deformation are an
increasingly valuable tool in many areas of medical image computing, such as …

Purpose NiftySim, an open-source finite element toolkit, has been designed to allow
incorporation of high-performance soft tissue simulation capabilities into biomedical …

Today, it is possible to associate multiple CPUs and multiple GPUs in a single shared
memory architecture. Using these resources efficiently in a seamless way is a challenging …