Biomechanical Joint Model
Author: Anderson Maciel

COME - Biomechanical Joint Model Documentation

Version 1.0i

Presentation

Biomodel is a set of libraries and a suite of applications allowing to model and simulate human joints with soft tissues deformation. It has been delevoped for a Ph.D. thesis work. Conceptual models for the articulated motion, the sof tissues biomechanics and the collision management are at the basis of the libraries. The four applications of the suite are mostly based on Qt and OpenGL, making use of libQGLViewer for the 3D viewer, xerces-c for XML handling, and VTK for the input mesh files. The applications allow to build joint models from triangular meshes reconstructed from MRI, to include biomechanical parameters for the soft tissues, and to compute the distribution of certain physical data (stress distribution, for instance) on the joint organs for aid on medical diagnosis of some pathologies.

This package can be used as is, provided that one has the suitable input data. However, it is part of a larger framework allowing to link other applications for appropriate data generation and analysis of results. Everything has been developed as a research project in the frame of the NCCR-COME of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), at the Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Biomodel is released under the terms of the GNU-GPL license.

Additional documentation

Ph.D. thesis (A Biomechanics-based Articulation model for Medical Applications)
Software architecture

Download

Source code

biomodel-1.0i-source.zip (with Microsoft Visual C++ .NET project definition)

Binaries

biomodel-1.0i-win32.zip

Install

The installation is done by extracting the zip files in the local directory of your preference. Executables are included with the dynamic link libraries and should run on most of the recent Windows systems. To be able to compile and link the source code, however, you need to have the external libraries installed on your computer. A list of these libraries is found below. Sometimes, full path specifications can force you to change some link properties on the VC++ project. It is also expected that your computer has the standard graphics libs installed (OpenGL for instance).

External libraries used

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