NA-MIC NCBC Collaboration:Automated FE Mesh Development

Abstract

FE Mesh Project Abstract

Grant#

1R01EB005973

Key Personnel

Nicole Grosland, Vincent Magnotta, Steve Pieper, and Simon Warfield.

Projects

Active projects in this collaboration are:

Meshing Algorithms

1. Voxel Meshing Module (Iowa)
2. Novel Hexahedral Meshing Algorithms (Iowa)
3. Hex vs Tet Mesh Comparisons (Iowa/Isomics/BWH)

Automated Segmentation

1. Integration of Neural Network Algorithms (Iowa)

Image Registration

1. Evaluation_of_Inter-Modality_Registration (Iowa/Isomics)
2. Inter-slice Motion Correction for fMRI (OSU)

Validation

1. Validation_of_Defined_Regions_of_Interest_Using_Surface_Scanning (Iowa)
2. FE_Mesh_Validation (Iowa)

Mesh Quality Visualization

1. FE Mesh Quality Visualization (Iowa/Isomics)
2. Standalone FE Mesh Quality Viewer
3. Mesh Quality Command Line Module

Meetings and Events Specific to this Collaboration

• Vince Magnotta presented background information about the data acquisitioin and validation at the 2006 NA-MIC AHM (Slides: Validation of Bone Models using 3D Surface Scanning).
• November 7-8, 2006: Meshing Collaborator Project Visit to BWH

Resource Links

• netget
• libmesh

• Mesh warping project at the SPL (Steve Haker):
  • http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/papers/haker/haker-miccai2004.pdf