Zhang J. (ed.) Image-Based Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation

Springer, 2013. — 302 pp.As a new interdisciplinary research area, image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation integrates image processing, geometric modeling and mesh generation with finite element method (FEM) to solve problems in computational biomedicine, materials sciences and engineering. It is well known that FEM is currently well-developed and efficient, but mesh generation for complex geometries (e.g., the human body) still takes about 80% of the total analysis time and is the major obstacle to reduce the total computation time. It is mainly because none of the traditional approaches is sufficient to effectively construct finite element meshes for arbitrarily complicated domains, and generally a great deal of manual interaction is involved in mesh generation.
This contributed volume book, the first for such an interdisciplinary topic, collects the latest research of experts in this area. Of the fourteen invited book chapters, three of them were selected from high quality accepted papers in MeshMed, a workshop on mesh processing in medical image analysis in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2011. These papers cover a broad range of topics, including medical imaging, image alignment and segmentation, image-to-mesh conversion, quality improvement, mesh warping, heterogeneous materials, biomolecular modeling and simulation, as well as medical and engineering applications.
Challenges and Advances in Image-Based Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation.
3D Surface Realignment Tracking for Medical Imaging: A Phantom Study with PET Motion Correction.
Flexible Multi-scale Image Alignment Using B-Spline Reparametrization.
Shape Based Conditional Random Fields for Segmenting Intracranial Aneurysms.
Tetrahedral Image-to-Mesh Conversion Approaches for Surgery Simulation and Navigation.
Surface Triangular Mesh and Volume Tetrahedral Mesh Generations for Biomolecular Modeling.
A Combined Level Set/Mesh Warping Algorithm for Tracking Brain and Cerebrospinal Fluid Evolution in Hydrocephalic Patients.
An Optimization-Based Iterative Approach to Tetrahedral Mesh Smoothing.
High-Quality Multi-tissue Mesh Generation for Finite Element Analysis.
Construction of Models and Meshes of Heterogeneous Material Microstructures from Image Data.
Quality Improvement of Segmented Hexahedral Meshes Using Geometric Flows.
Patient-Specific Model Generation and Simulation for Pre-operative Surgical Guidance for Pulmonary Embolism Treatment.
Computational Techniques for Analysis of Shape and Kinematics of Biological Structures.
Finite Element Modeling of Biomolecular Systems in Ionic Solution.