Real-time Interactive High Resolution Soft Tissue Modeling in a Data-Driven Enrichment Approach

In this paper, a real-time interactive high resolution soft tissue modeling is implemented that enriches a coarse model in a data-driven approach to produce a fine model. As a preprocess step, a set of corresponding coarse and fine models are simulated for the database. In the test step, by using a regressor, the coarse model in the test set is compared to the coarse models in the training set and the blending weights are assigned to the training coarse models. These weights are used for approximating the fine model as a linear combination of the corresponding fine models in the train set. To decrease the computational complexity, assuming that applying a force on the tissue results in a local deformation, a feature extraction algorithm is proposed that considers the displacements of the contact node and its neighbor nodes and ignores the rest. This results in a low dimensional feature vector and decreases the computational complexity. In order to compute the blending weights, a nonlinear regressor with Gaussian kernel is leveraged. To eliminate the artefacts resulting from negative weights, a nonnegative least square algorithm is used for regression. Simulation results of applying the proposed method on two soft tissue models are investigated regarding the reconstruction accuracy, computational complexity and running time.