This paper investigates an Open Framework for Medical Simulation (named SOFA for
Simulation Open Framework Architecture), and proposes ideas for structuring and …

METHODS For the past few years, there have been a few attempts at designing software
toolkits for medical simulation 1–4 Although our aim is identical, we propose a different …

SOFA is a new open source framework primarily targeted at medical simulation research.
Based on an advanced software architecture, it allows to (1) create complex and evolving …

The development of a multimodal interactive simulation is a very elaborate task due to the
various complex software components involved, which run simultaneously at very high rates …

Recently, several multidisciplinary projects have begun to model and simulate human
physiological systems. However, the simulators for these models are often limited in terms of …

SOFA is a new open source framework primarily targeted at medical simulation research
and industry. It is based on a scene graph data structure extended to physical models and …

This book contains the written contributions to the Third International Sym-sium on
Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS), which was held in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 10-11, 2006 …

In this paper we propose an open source/open architecture framework for developing organ
level surgical simulations. Our goal is to facilitate shared development of reusable models …

Abstract Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies's technical
workshop “Prototyping of Surgical Simulators using Open Source Simulation Software” was …

Virtual reality simulation has become a popular approach for training and assessing medical
students. It offers diverse scenarios, realistic visuals, and quantitative performance metrics …