Multi-View Stereo in the Operating Room Allows Prediction of Healing Complications in a Patient-Specific Model of Reconstructive Surgery

Excessive mechanical stress leads to wound healing complications following reconstructive surgery. However, this knowledge is not easily applicable in clinical scenarios due to the difficulty in measuring stress contours during complex tissue rearrangement procedures. Computational tools have been proposed as an alternative to address this need, but obtaining patient specific geometries with an affordable and flexible setup has remained a challenge. Here we present a methodology to determine the stress contours from a reconstructive procedure on a patient-specific finite element model based on multi-view stereo (MVS).
Source: Journal of Biomechanics - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research