Paper Info
Title
Bender: An Open Source Software for Efficient Model Posing and Morphing.
Abstract
In this paper, we present Bender, an interactive and freely available software application for changing the pose of anatomical models that are represented as labeled, voxel-based volumes. Voxelized anatomical models are used in numerous applications including the computation of specific absorption rates associated with cell phone transmission energies, radiation therapy, and electromagnetic dosimetry simulation. Other applications range from the study of ergonomics to the design of clothing. Typically, the anatomical pose of a voxelized model is limited by the imaging device used to acquire the source anatomical data; however, absorption of emitted energies and the fit of clothes will change based on anatomic pose. Bender provides an intuitive, workflow-based user-interface to an extensible framework for changing the pose of anatomic models. Bender is implemented as a customized version of 3D Slicer, an image analysis and visualization framework that is widely used in the medical computing research community. The currently available repositioning methods in Bender are based on computer-graphics techniques for rigging, skinning, and resampling voxelized anatomical models. In this paper we present the software and compare two resampling methods: a novel extension to dual quaternions and finite element modeling (FEM) techniques. We show that FEM can be used to quickly and effectively resample repositioned anatomic models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-12057-7_23
BIOMEDICAL SIMULATION
Field
DocType
Volume
Voxel,Morphing,Collision detection,Computer graphics (images),Computer science,Finite element method,Software,Open source software
Conference
8789
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Finet162.02
Ricardo Ortiz292.19
Johan Andruejol300.68
Andinet Enquobahrie47315.45
Julien Jomier523719.59
Jason Payne600.34
Stephen R Aylward760861.21