FEM based morphing of whole body human models

The requirements for virtual anatomical models are constantly growing due to the rapidly developing market for medical devices. It is important to provide optimal coverage of the potential population with anatomical models (with regard to height, pose, body mass index, etc.). The Virtual Population project already provides several ”base” models, some of them poseable. In this study we demonstrate the applicability of the finite element method (FEM) to achieve realistic body poses and to predict changes in body appearance following volume increase or decrease of body fat parameterizing the body mass index (BMI) up to a factor of two.