Section: Software and Platforms

Model construction – A new project

Many of our projects rely on realistic or even patient-tailored meshes to represent the anatomy of the human heart and torso. The construction of such meshes provides challenges on many levels, from the delineation of the anatomical structures in medical images to the construction of high-quality meshes. The construction of such meshes provides challenges on many levels, from the delineation of the anatomical structures in medical images to the construction of high-quality meshes. We presently use a variety of in-house and public software packages to perform this work and are able to produce meshes of sufficient quality, but we strive for an important streamlining of this work. We have initiated a discussion with several groups inside and outside Inria who have similar needs or can offer solutions. We specifically investigate the possibility to build a common software which combines and complements our present solutions. The new code should make various methods easily accessible and automate the work as much as possible. Because accuracy and mesh quality are important requirements, the new code should also provide convenient options for human intervention where algorithms fall short. For example, manual segmentation and mesh editing should be as easy and efficient as they are in medical-imaging tools and 3D-editing software, respectively, but well integrated into the workflow.