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

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 303-317

  Bucki, Marek ^a   Lobos, Claudio ^b   Payan, Yohan ^a,c  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elastic registration; Finite Element Method; Mesh generation; Mesh repair

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION; BIOMECHANICAL MODELING; BONE SURFACE; COMPUTATION TIME; CT SCAN; CT VOLUME; ELASTIC REGISTRATION; ELEMENT TYPE; FAT LAYER; FE SOFTWARE; FEMORAL HEADS; FINITE ELEMENT MESHES; INTRA-OPERATIVE; MESH REPAIR; MESH STRUCTURES; MODEL GENERATION; PATIENT SPECIFIC; REGISTRATION PROCESS; REGISTRATION TECHNIQUES; SUBDOMAIN; SURFACE REPRESENTATION; TARGET ORGANS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; REPAIR;

MESH GENERATION;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR HEAD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77951673612     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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