Title :
Computer support system for aneurysm treatment
Author :
Liu, Damon ; Burgin, Mark ; Karplus, Walter
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
An important medical problem in the noninvasive treatment of brain aneurysms demands special attention. The main reason is that, in many cases, it is necessary to have direct information about the size, shape and exact location of the aneurysm. To provide a medical specialist with such information, a virtual aneurysm system has been created. Problems with its realization and efficiency are discussed in this paper. A novel approach to the simulation and visualization of biomedical systems is suggested, so as to achieve higher efficiency. This approach is called “branching simulation”
Keywords :
blood vessels; brain; data visualisation; digital simulation; health care; medical computing; patient treatment; virtual reality; biomedical systems simulation; biomedical visualization; brain; branching simulation; computer-supported aneurysm treatment system; efficiency; health care; noninvasive treatment; virtual aneurysm system; virtual reality; Aneurysm; Blood; Brain modeling; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Medical simulation; Medical treatment; Surgery; Virtual reality; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2000. CBMS 2000. Proceedings. 13th IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0484-1
DOI :
10.1109/CBMS.2000.856865