Title
Real-time biomechanical simulation of volumetric brain deformation for image guided neurosurgery
Abstract
We aimed to study the performance of a parallel implementation of an intraoperative nonrigid registration algorithm that accurately simulates the biomechanical properties of the brain and its deformations during surgery. The algorithm was designed to allow for improved surgical navigation and quantitative monitoring of treatment progress in order to improve the surgical outcome and to reduce the time required in the operating room. We have applied the algorithm to two neurosurgery cases with promising results. High performance computing is a key enabling technology that allows the biomechanical simulation to be executed quickly enough for the algorithm to be practical. Our parallel implementation was evaluated on a symmetric multi-processor and two clusters and exhibited similar performance characteristics on each. The implementation was sufficiently fast to be used in the operating room during a neurosurgery procedure. It allowed a three-dimensional volumetric deformation to be simulated in less than ten seconds.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/SC.2000.10043
SC
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomechanical property,neurosurgery case,high performance computing,neurosurgery procedure,parallel implementation,biomechanical simulation,intraoperative nonrigid registration algorithm,similar performance characteristic,improved surgical navigation,real-time biomechanical simulation,volumetric brain deformation,operating room,algorithm design and analysis,bioinformatics,surgery,databases,multithreading,navigation,real time,cheminformatics,clustering algorithms,neurosurgery,computational modeling,smp,three dimensional
Computer vision,Multithreading,Algorithm design,Supercomputer,Computer science,Simulation,Artificial intelligence,Neurosurgery,Deformation (mechanics),Cluster analysis
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-9535
0-7803-9802-5
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.10
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon K. Warfield12825229.11
Matthieu Ferrant229728.35
Xavier Gallez3312.99
Arya Nabavi463358.40
Ferenc A. Jolesz52154362.23