Cyber Surgery: Parameterized Mesh for Multi-modal Surgery Simulation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Liu, Q. | Prakash, E. C.

Affiliations: School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798. E-mail: liuqiang@pmail.ntu.edu.sg, asprakash@ntu.edu.sg

Abstract: This paper presents a new method for modeling of virtual organs for surgery simulation. The organ models have a parameterized representation that supports real-time interactive deformation. To accomplish real-time interaction with deformable organs, instead of computing the deformation on the 3D organ models in 3D space we use a novel yet simple and fast free-form deformation on the 2D parameterized representation itself. With the parameterized mesh, we also demonstrate that realistic visual and haptic rendering can be provided for interactive surgery simulation.

Keywords: Surgery Simulation, Parameterization, Free Form Deformation (FFD), Haptics

Journal: Journal of Visualization, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 373-380, 2006