Recent Advances in the 3D Physiological Human

Аннотация

This book presents recent advances in the domain of the 3D Physiological Human that have been presented last December in the Workshop on 3D Physiological Human 2008. This workshop was funded by the “Third Cycle in Computer Science of Western Switzerland” named CUSO, the European project Focus K3D, and the European Marie Curie project 3D Anatomical Human (3DAH). 3D Physiological Human research is a very active field supported by many scientific projects. Many of them are funded by the European Union such as 3D Anatomical Human project (FP6-MRTN-CT-2006) and those present in the seventh framework program “Virtual Physiological Human” (FP7-ICT-2007-2). One of the main objectives of the research on 3D Physiological Human is to create patient-specific computer models for personalized health care. These models are used to simulate and hence better understand the human physiology and pathology. A collection of scientific articles is proposed to highlight the necessity to exchange and disseminate novel ideas and techniques from a wide range of disciplines (computer graphics, biomechanics, knowledge representation, human– machine interface, etc.) associated with medical imaging, medical simulation, computer-assisted surgery, and 3D semantics. The emphasis is on technical novelty along with current and future applications for modeling and simulating the anatomical structures and functions of the human body. The book is divided into three main parts: anatomical and physiological modeling, physically based simulation, and medical analysis and knowledge management. We would like to thank the program committee members for their work on reviewing papers. We would also like to thank Jérôme Schmid and Caecilia Charbonnier from MIRALab-University of Geneva to have finalized the documents for the camera-ready edition of this book.