A statistical atlas based approach to automated subject-specific FE modeling
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چکیده
Subject-specific modeling is increasingly important in biomechanics simulation. However, how to automatically create highquality finite element (FE) mesh and how to automatically impose boundary conditionare challenging. This paper presents a statistical atlas based approach for automatic meshing of subject-specific shapes. In our approach, shape variations among a shape population are explicitly modeled and the correspondence between a given subject-specific shape and the statistical atlas is sought within the “legal” shape variations. This approach involves three parts: 1) constructing a statistical atlas from a shape population, including the statistical shape model and the FE model of the mean shape; 2) establishing the correspondence between a given subject shape and the atlas; and 3) deforming the atlas to the subject shape based on the shape correspondence. Numerical results on 2D hands, 3D femur bones and 3D aorta demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Computer-Aided Design
دوره 70 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016