Computational Biomechanics for Medicine

Prof Wittek is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering at The University of Western Australia. http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/adam.wittek  Poul Nielsen is an Associate Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute.  http://www.abi.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/poul-nielsen Karol Miller is the Winthrop Professor of Applied Mechanics at the University of Western Australia: http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/

• Part I: Invited Lectures.- Cutting in real-time in corrotational elasticity and perspectives on simulating cuts.- Why most of the intra-operative medical robotic devices do not use biomechanical models? Some clues to explain the bottlenecks and the needed research breakthroughs.- Part II: Computational Biomechanics of Soft Organs and Flow.- Numeric simulation of fluid structure interaction in the aortic arch.- Patient-specific computational models: Tools for improving the efficiency of Medical Compression Stockings.- Intraoperative damage monitoring of endoclamp balloon expansion using real-time finite element modeling.- 3D Algorithm for simulation of soft tissue cutting.- Simulation of congenital heart defect corrective surgeries using thin shell elements.- Efficient suturing of deformable models.- Part III: Computational Biomechanics for Image-Guided Surgery.- Objective evaluation of accuracy of intraoperative neuroimage registration.- Registration of brain tumor images using hyper-elastic regularization.- Heterogeneous biomechanical model on correcting brain deformation induced by tumor resection.- Intra-operative update of neuro-images: Comparison of performance of image warping using patient-specific biomechanical model and BSpline image registration.- Part IV: Musculoskeletal System, Muscles and Injury Biomechanics.- Trabecular bone poroelasticity for microCT-based FE models.- Using multibody dynamics to design total knee replacement implants.- Using tagged MRI to quantify the 3D deformation of a cadaver brain in response to angular acceleration.- Identification of tongue muscle fibre group contraction from MR images.- Finite element analysis of thorax responses under quasi-static and dynamic loading.