Virtual Surgery: Knee Surgery Assistance
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Current project
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Telemedicine -- knee surgery assistance in distributed
interactive simulation
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Proposal "Distributed Interactive Simulation for Knee Surgery,"
National Institutes of Health, NIH/NIAMS, Principal Investigator: Jim Chen
(Co-PI: Harry Wechsler, Kevin Granata, and David Carmines)
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Project: "Synchronization in the Networked Virtual Environment,"
U.S. Department of Defense, Principal Investigator: Jim Chen
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Project: "Visualization of Medical Data in Virtual Environment,"
GMU, Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Edward Wegman)
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Automatic patient-specific knee model recontrctuion: from MRI slices
to 3D surface model
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Knee contact surfaces and stresses: from materials & dynamics
to contact points & stresses
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Gait cycle, knee kinematics, and dynamics: an integrated real-time
simulation and visualization
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Quantitative correspondence analysis: from different knees to comparable
coordinates and geometry
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from original knee and reference points to rotation axes
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cylindrical surface mapping based on rotation axes
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Virtual examinations and surgeries: from human-computer interface
to cutting the bones
References (under construction)
J. X. Chen, H. Wechsler,
et al., "Knee Surgery Assistance: Patient Model Reconstruction, Motion
Simulation, and Biomechanical Visualization," submitted to IEEE Transactions
on Biomedical Engineering.
Ying Zhu, 3D Reconstruction, Motion Simulation and Biomechanical
Visualization of Knee Joint, Ph.D Dissertation, George Mason University,
May, 2000.
Y. Yang, Y. Zhu, and J. X. Chen, "Distributed Interactive Virtual Surgery
System," Third International Workshop on Distributed Interactive Simulation
and Real Time Applications (DIS-RT'99), University of Maryland, College
Park MD, Oct., 1999.
Y. Zhu and J. X. Chen, "A 3D Knee Modeling, Visualization and Surgery
Simulation System," under review.
Y. Zhu, J. X. Chen, S. Xiao, and E. B. MacMahon, "3D Knee Modeling and
Biomechanical Simulation," to appear in AIP/IEEE Computing in Science
and Engineering, 1999.
D. Pew, B. Pew, J. X. Chen, "3D knee reconstruction
from MRI slices," CS752 technical report, GMU Computer Graphics Group,
George Mason University, Dec. 1998.
Y. Zhu, J. X. Chen, X. Fu, and D. Quammen, "A Virtual Reality System
for Knee Diagnosis and Surgery Simulation," IEEE Virtual Reality'99,
University of Houston, March 1999.
Y. Zhu and J. X. Chen, "Establishing a 3D Human Gait and Knee Model,"
WSCG'98,
University of West Bohemia", Czech Republic, Feburary 1998.