The use of meshfree and particle methods in the field of bioengineering and biomechanics
has significantly increased. This may be attributed to their unique abilities to overcome most …

In this paper, the interpolating element-free Galerkin (IEFG) method for solving the three-
dimensional (3D) elastoplasticity problems is presented. By using the improved interpolating …

Background Virtual cutting of deformable objects has been a research topic for more than a
decade and has been used in many areas, especially in surgery simulation. Methods We …

A novel meshless deformation model of biological soft tissue, which is mainly based on the
radial basis function point interpolation, is presented for interactive simulation applications …

Background Virtual cutting of deformable objects plays an important role in many
applications, especially in digital medicine, such as soft tissue cutting in virtual surgery …

This paper presents a practical study to verify the concept of non-integer order dynamic
behavior of multi-dimensional soft tissue deformation. The stress-strain relationship of soft …

Background Saturated biopsy is widely used in a histopathological examination of prostate
biopsy surgery by expanding the target regions and the increasing the number of insertions …

In order to solve the problem of high computing cost and low simulation accuracy caused by
discontinuity of incision in traditional meshless model, this paper proposes a soft tissue …

This paper proposes a fast, stable and accurate meshless method to simulate geometrically
non-linear elastic behaviors. To address the inherent limitations of finite element (FE) …

This thesis addresses the problem soft tissue simulation for augmented reality applications
in liver surgery assistance and, more specifically, the implementation of a non-rigid …