A fast and robust patient specific Finite Element mesh registration technique: application to 60 clinical cases

Details A fast and robust patient specific Finite Element mesh registration technique: application to 60 clinical cases A fast and robust patient specific Finite Element mesh registration technique: application to 60 clinical cases

2010-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/1005.5313v1

Medical Image Analysis 14, 3 (2010) 303-17

Physics

Medical Physics

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.media.2010.02.003

Finite Element mesh generation remains an important issue for patient specific biomechanical modeling. While some techniques make automatic mesh generation possible, in most cases, manual mesh generation is preferred for better control over the sub-domain representation, element type, layout and refinement that it provides. Yet, this option is time consuming and not suited for intraoperative situations where model generation and computation time is critical. To overcome this problem we propose a fast and automatic mesh generation technique based on the elastic registration of a generic mesh to the specific target organ in conjunction with element regularity and quality correction. This Mesh-Match-and-Repair (MMRep) approach combines control over the mesh structure along with fast and robust meshing capabilities, even in situations where only partial organ geometry is available. The technique was successfully tested on a database of 5 pre-operatively acquired complete femora CT scans, 5 femoral heads partially digitized at intraoperative stage, and 50 CT volumes of patients' heads. The MMRep algorithm succeeded in all 60 cases, yielding for each patient a hex-dominant, Atlas based, Finite Element mesh with submillimetric surface representation accuracy, directly exploitable within a commercial FE software.

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