A point-based simulation framework for minimally invasive surgery

  • Authors:
  • Bo Zhu;Lixu Gu;Xiaopeng Peng;Zhe Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • Venue:
  • ISBMS'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Biomedical Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a physically-based simulation framework to build up real-time Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) simulators using point-based techniques. In our framework, simulations of organ contacts, collisions, deformations and haptic feedbacks are all based on discrete physics points. We propose a new smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) approach to simulate non-linear biological soft tissues with a specified tensor computation scheme and experimentally measured organ parameters. We employ a uniform grid method to handle collisions and contacts between organs and surgical instruments represented by particles in real-time. Additionally, a point-based smoothing method for contact feedback is proposed. Our framework could simulate complex surgical scenes in MIS simulation in a unified way, and improve the time efficiency of the entire system without loss of physics accuracy, as shown in our experiment results.