Open Source Modeling Framework for Biocomputation

Jul 1, 2001 · 1 min read
Heart model for surgical simulation.
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Goals

The objective of this effort was to study organ level modeling and simulation for surgical applications. The point to the proposed research is to explore the feasibility of developing open source, open architecture models of different levels of granularity and spatio-temporal scale for a project that has been labeled the Digital Human project. While the emphasis on this program was on how the simulations that we develop will allow for the interconnections between individual organ simulations, and between different types of physical processes within a given organ, we developed our tools on a specific test bed application: the construction of a heart model for simulation of heart surgery.

This effort later evolved into the development of the GiPSi framework.

Surgical Simulation Virtual Environments Virtual Reality
M. Cenk Cavusoglu
Authors
M. Cenk Cavusoglu
Nord Professor of Engineering
M. Cenk Cavusoglu is the Nord Professor of Engineering in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He is also the director of the Medical Robotics and Computer Integrated Surgery (MeRCIS) Laboratory. His research focuses on medical robotics, haptics, human–machine interfaces, and control, spanning control, mechanism, and system design to AI-assisted interventions. He is a Fellow of AIMBE. He has led 12 federally funded projects as principal investigator, with a total budget over $12.6M, and has served on editorial boards for leading robotics and mechatronics journals. His work advances safe, precise, and intelligent robotic systems for surgery and image-guided interventions.