Julian Charles Nolan,Matthew John Lawrenson,Juergen Weese
申请号：
US15546097
公开号：
US20180012402A1
申请日:
2016.01.26
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
A system and method is provided for generating a finite element (FE) model of an anatomical structure based on a fitted model (340) of the anatomical structure and association data. A segmentation model (310) may be provided for segmenting the anatomical structure. Association data may be obtained which associates a segmentation model part (315) of the segmentation model (310) with a mesh property, the segmentation model part (315) representing a pre-determined anatomical region of interest. The segmentation model may be applied to a medical image (320) of a subject, thereby obtaining a fitted model (340) providing a segmentation of the anatomical structure (330). The finite element model (350) may then be generated based on the fitted model (340) and the association data, said generating comprising meshing a finite element model part of the finite element model in accordance with the mesh property, the finite element model part corresponding with the pre-determined anatomical region of interest. Advantageously, this may result in an efficient generation of the FE model needing fewer manual iterations and/or alterations in the model or in the mesh.
