title: A hip surgery simulator based on patient specific models generated by automatic segmentation.
abstract: The use of surgical simulator systems for education and preoperative planning is likely to increase in the future. A natural course of development of these systems is to incorporate patient specific anatomical models. This step requires some kind of segmentation process in which the different anatomical parts are extracted. Anatomical datasets are, however, usually very large and manual processing would be too demanding. Hence, automatic, or semi-automatic, methods to handle this step are required. The framework presented in this paper uses nonrigid registration, based on the morphon method, to automatically segment the hip anatomy and generate models for a hip surgery simulator system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, Linköping University, Sweden. johanna.pettersson@imt.liu.se
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pettersson
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Knutsson
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nordqvist
authors.forename: Magnus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borga
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006615:Hip / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D013548:Sweden