Title
Modelling Of Soft Tissue Cutting In Virtual Surgery Simulation: A Literature Review
Abstract
Haptic and virtual reality-based surgery simulators are starting to be utilized to train surgical residents for some simple procedures, allowing them to operate on virtual human models with the aid of haptic devices with force feedback, overcoming training constraints and limitations such as a shortage of specimens, space, time and usage frequency. Compared with conventional training methods, surgery simulators have many advantages such as being risk-free and reusable, and training sessions can be stored and reviewed by physicians. However, it is very difficult to establish an accurate and efficient model for soft tissue deformation and cutting because human tissue is a special elastomeric material with non-linear, viscoelastic, anisotropic and incompressible properties. The cutting operation can change or destroy the topology of the initial model, making the entire modelling process very challenging. In this paper, four existing soft tissue cutting modelling methods are reviewed in detail -a mesh-based finite element method, a meshless method, a hybrid mesh-based and meshless method (HMMM) and an extended finite element method (XFEM). The advantages and disadvantages of each of these four algorithms are then compared and analysed in terms of a number of criteria, including their calculation speed, simulation precision, convergence and stability. Some suggestions are given for the XFEM and HMMM, which are now hot and active research topics in this field.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.2316/Journal.206.2017.3.206-4754
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biomedicine, bio-robotics, soft tissue, cutting model, virtual surgery
Mechanical engineering,Manufacturing engineering,Control engineering,Biorobotics,Biomedicine,Engineering,Soft tissue
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
3
0826-8185
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
0
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiangqiang Cheng111.36
Peter Xiaoping Liu2105449.86
Pinghua Lai310.69
Shaoping Xu4142.57
Yanni Zou561.10
Chunquan Li69512.61
Lingyan Hu7427.96