Improving Triangle Mesh Quality with SurfaceNets

P.W. de Bruin, F.M. Vos, Frits H. Post, S.F. Frisken-Gibson, A.M. Vossepoel

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2000, Proceedings, Third International Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1935 - October 2000

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Simulation of soft tissue deformation is a critical part of surgical simulation. An important method for this is finite element (FE) analysis. Models for FE analysis are typically derived by extraction of triangular surface meshes from CT or MRI image data. These meshes must fulfill requirements of accuracy , smoothness, compactness, and triangle quality. In this paper we propose new techniques for improving mesh triangle quality, based on the SurfaceNets method. Our results show that the meshes created are smooth and accurate, have good triangle quality, and fine detail is retained.

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@InProceedings { BVPFV00a,
  author       = "Bruin, P.W. de and Vos, F.M. and Post, Frits H. and Frisken-Gibson, S.F. and Vossepoel, A.M.",
  title        = "Improving Triangle Mesh Quality with SurfaceNets",
  booktitle    = "Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - MICCAI 2000, Proceedings, Third International
                  Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume       = "1935",
  month        = "October",
  year         = "2000",
  editor       = "Scott L. Delp and Anthony M. DiGioia and Branislav Jaramaz",
  publisher    = "Springer-Verlag",
  note         = "0302-9743",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2000/BVPFV00a"
}

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