Soft Tissue Biomechanical Modeling for Computer Assisted Surgery

• Assisted Image-Guided Liver Surgery Using Sparse Intraoperative Data.- Viscoelastic and Nonlinear Liver Modeling for Needle Insertion Simulation.- Application of Biomechanical Modelling to Image-Guided Breast Surgery.- Estimation of Intraoperative Brain Deformation.- Doppler Ultrasound Driven Biomechanical Model of the Brain for Intraoperative Brain-Shift Compensation: A Proof of Concept in Clinical Conditions.- Biomechanical Modeling of the Prostate for Procedure Guidance and Simulation.- Measuring the in vivo behavior of soft tissue and organs using the aspiration device.- Dynamic Material Properties of Human and Animal Livers.- Validation of a Light Aspiration device for in vivo Soft Tissue Characterization (LASTIC).- Harmonic Motion Imaging (HMI) for Tumor Imaging and Treatment Monitoring.- SOFA, a Multi-Model Framework for Interactive Physical Simulation.- CamiTK :a modular framework integrating visualization, image processing and biomechanical modelling.- ArtiSynth: A Fast Interactive Biomechanical Modeling Toolkit Combining Multibody and Finite Element Simulation.

From the book reviews: "This is a comprehensive textbook and color atlas of surgery involving the liver, prostate, genitourinary system, uterine structures, and brain. ... I highly recommend this text for surgeons, engineers, and applied mathematicians with interests in robotic surgery using 3D CAS Models with applications to ultrasonic, MR, and CT imaging techniques and how they can be used to improve surgical outcomes." (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, April, 2015)