Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Towards Translation and Better Patient Outcomes

PART I: Solid mechanics.- Towards accurate measurement of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall thickness from CT and MRI.- Patient-specific finite element modeling of aneurysmal dilatation after chronic type B aortic dissection.- Characterizing the biomechanics of cerebral aneurysms by geometrically nonlinear Kirchhoff–Love shells of nonuniform thickness.- Imaging-based patient-specific biomechanical evaluation of atherosclerosis and aneurysm: a comparison between structural-only, fluid-only and fluid-structure interaction analysis.- Automatic framework for patient-specific biomechanical computations of organ deformation: an epilepsy (EEG) case study.- Generating scoliotic computed tomography volumes from finite element spine models.- Morphological variation in an endothelial cell population: a virtual-cell model.- PART II: Fluid mechanics.- Efficient and accurate computation of quantitative flow ratio (QFR) for physiological assessment of coronary artery stenosis from a single angiographic view.- Predicting plaque progression in patient-specific carotid bifurcation.- PART III: Imaging.- Assessing fibre reorientation in soft tissues with simultaneous mueller matrix imaging and mechanical testing.- A direct geometry processing cartilage generation method for datasets with poor cartilage visibility.- Development of an open source, low-cost imaging system for continuous lung monitoring in ICU.- Measuring three-dimensional surface deformations of skin using a stereoscopic system and intrinsic features.