title: Virtual open heart surgery: obtaining models suitable for surgical simulation.
abstract: We present a pre-processing strategy including imaging, segmentation, and model reconstruction that is well suited for previously published GPU-accelerated techniques for surgical simulation. In particular we describe these modeling steps as a prerequisite for our virtual open heart surgery simulator. A short description including relevant references is presented for each of the steps.
authors: CAVI, University of Aarhus, Denmark. sangild@cavi.dk
authors: Thomas Sangild
authors: TS
authors: Sørensen
authors: Jean
authors: J
authors: Stawiaski
authors: Jesper
authors: J
authors: Mosegaard
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface