Several research projects currently exist in this field. Featured here is a summary of one of Stanford's projects, Soft Tissue Modeling Using Computer Simulation.
SEVERAL GOALS EXIST:
- The development of a general-purpose computational scheme for representing the human-body soft tissue structures accurately
- Simulating body tissue displacements and deformations in real-time when external forces are applied by surgical instruments
WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE GOALS?
- Medical training for delicate/difficult surgeries
- Retraining and skill maintenance for confirmed surgeons
- Surgical planning and rehearsal
- Enabling technology for robotic assistance
This ultimately translates into more effective, efficient, safe, and cheap medical operation techniques.
WHAT ARE SOME POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS?
- Microsurgery training simulator
- Simulation of soft tissue dynamics for surgical planning
- Integrated with haptics for surgical training procedures
- Craniofacial surgical planning with goal to show how the soft tissues would respond to underlying bone movements
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Complex and intricat surgeries can be made easier with such advance planning and practice techniques.
HOW DOES CS HELP?
- Designs user interface: 3D visualization, haptics
- Distributed interactive, collaborative workspaces
- Features: Cutting/mesh manipulation, modeling contact/friction, tissuemovements(breathing, heart motion), blood simulation
FUTURE OF THE PROJECT:
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