Computer Science Research

Virtual Plastic Surgery

The goal of this project is to develop a virtual plastic surgery system, in collaboration will Dr. Min Li from the Department of Plastic Surgery. Using a 3D scanner as the basic sensory device to gather detailed patient's facial (or other body parts) data, and develop interactive tools for the simulation of surgery process, and for preview of surgical effects. Haptic force feedback system will be integrated into this process to provide more realistic simulation of surgical procedures. The research will involve modeling tools for polygon mesh data and texture data from the 3D scanner, including 3D deformation, topological and geometric operators, texture re-shading, and physical modeling for force-feedback operations.

Project Presented By

Fang, Shiaofen

Position:	Chair, Professor
Mail:
Phone:	317-274-9731
Url:	http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~sfang

Education Details

Research Interests

My primary research interests are in visualization, biomedical imaging, computer graphics, and geometric modeling. My early research focus had been on Volume Visualization and Volume Graphics. Major projects include deformable volume modeling and rendering, hardware assisted voxelization, volume fusion, 3D microscopy visualization, and immersive volume visualzation. A common theme of these research projects is the efficient and effective visaulization of scientific data. Although this line of research is still a major part of my work, My recent research interests have been shifted more towards the direction of medical image analysis and visual data mining. These include 3D image analysis for medical diagnosis, surface analysis of medical scans, 3D surface reconstruction, and knowledge discovery through information visualization.