Collaborative simulation of soft-tissue deformation for virtual surgery applications

Jing Qin, Kup Sze Choi, Pheng Ann Heng

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Abstract

A key challenge of collaborative surgical simulation is to maintain a high level of state consistency among the distributed users under the limitation of network transmission capacity. In this paper, a framework integrating a scalable deformable model and an extensible communication protocol is proposed to meet this challenge. The parameters of the deformable model are obtained by making reference to the biomechanical properties of human soft tissues. Efficient collaboration is achieved by developing the communication protocol and implementing a series of network management approaches, including service management, computation policies, coupling control, token control and availability mechanism. A prototype has been developed by using the client-server network architecture. Experimental results demonstrate that this framework can support collaborative surgical simulation with acceptable network latencies.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)367-378
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Medical Systems
Volume34
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jun 2010

Keywords

  • Biomechanical properties
  • Collaborative virtual reality
  • Deformable models
  • Distributed system
  • Surgical simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Medicine (miscellaneous)
  • Information Systems
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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