Computational Biomechanics for Medicine

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine

One of the greatest challenges for mechanical engineers is to extend the success of computational mechanics to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences, and medicine. This book is an opportunity for computational biomechanics specialists to present and exchange opinions on the opportunities of applying their techniques to computer-integrated medicine.
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: Deformation and Flow collects the papers from the Sixth Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop held in Toronto in conjunction with the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention conference. The topics covered include: medical image analysis, image-guided surgery, surgical simulation, surgical intervention planning, disease prognosis and diagnostics, injury mechanism analysis, implant and prostheses design, and medical robotics.

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Poul M.F. Nielsen, Assoc Professor, U of Auckland, http://www.abi.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/poul-nielsen Karol Miller has contributed to three books for Springer.

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Automatic quantification of congruity from knee MRI.- Computational fluid dynamics framework for large-scale simulation in pediatric cardiology.- Effects of levator ani muscle morphology on the mechanics of vaginal childbirth.- Human body joints tracking for clinical jumping analysis.- Human supervisory control framework for interactive medical image segmentation.- Modeling heterogeneous tumor growth using hybrid cellular automata.- Modelling prone to supine breast deformation under gravity loading using heterogeneous finite element models.- Neuroimage as a biomechanical model.- Towards new computational biomechanics of the brain.- Performing brain image warping using the deformation field predicted by a biomechanical model.- Quadratic corotated finite elements for real- time soft tissue registration.- The dependence of clinical metrics of cardiac function on lead position in cardiac resynchronization therapy- a biophysical modeling study.- Toward computer modelling of blood flow