Abstract:
I will present an overview of the research I have done in collaboration with the University of Geneva, the University of British Columbia and the LJK/INRIA lab in Grenoble during my phd and post-docs. It deals with the study of the human musculoskeletal system using 3d deformable models. The goal of this research is to reconstruct and simulate patient-specific functional models of articulations for diagnosis and treatment planning purposes. I will introduce some methods to extract the morphology and the kinematics from medical images, mostly MRI, based on template morphing in which prior information about shape and motion is incorporated. Then, I will talk about a new biomechanical simulation method that combines the flexibility of skinning deformation, popular in graphics, and the accuracy of continuum solid mechanics. Case studies on the human lower and upper limbs will be presented.