Vascular bypass surgery takes a significant place in the treatment of vascular disease.
According to various assessments, this type of surgery is associated with almost 20% of all …

This paper studies a new approach to dynamic modelling of soft tissue nonlinear
deformation behavior based on dynamic model decomposition. This approach derives the …

This paper presents a new constrained FEM (finite element method) for accurate and
runtime modeling of soft tissue's mechanical deformation from measurement of local surface …

Soft tissue modelling plays a significant role in surgery simulation as well as surgical
procedure planning and training. However, it is a challenging research task to satisfy both …

Introduction. With the availability of low-cost head-mounted displays (HMDs), virtual reality
environments (VREs) are increasingly being used in medicine for teaching and clinical …

Abstract Background and Objective: Soft tissue modelling is crucial to surgery simulation.
This paper introduces an innovative approach to realistic simulation of nonlinear …

Needle biopsy is an essential part of modern clinical medicine. The puncture accuracy and
sampling success rate of puncture surgery can be effectively improved through virtual …

This research work proposes a novel method for realistic and real-time modelling of
deformable biological tissues by the combination of the traditional finite element method …

A theoretical framework, united by a “system effect” is formulated to model the cutting/haptic
force evolution at the cutting edge of a surgical cutting instrument during its penetration into …

An accurate and realistic force feedback is very important in determining the realism of
virtual surgery. In order to improve the accuracy of force simulation in cutting procedures, we …