Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research (대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지)

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Numerical Evaluations of the Effect of Feature Maps on Content-Adaptive Finite Element Mesh Generation

  • Lee, W.H. (Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center Department of Biomedical Engineering Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, T.S. (Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center Department of Biomedical Engineering Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Cho, M.H. (Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center Department of Biomedical Engineering Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Lee, S.Y. (Functional and Metabolic Imaging Center Department of Biomedical Engineering Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2007.02.28
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Abstract

Finite element analysis (FEA) is an effective means for the analysis of bioelectromagnetism. It has been successfully applied to various problems over conventional methods such as boundary element analysis and finite difference analysis. However, its utilization has been limited due to the overwhelming computational load despite of its analytical power. We have previously developed a novel mesh generation scheme that produces FE meshes that are content-adaptive to given MR images. MRI content-adaptive FE meshes (cMeshes) represent the electrically conducting domain more effectively with far less number of nodes and elements, thus lessen the computational load. In general, the cMesh generation is affected by the quality of feature maps derived from MRI. In this study, we have tested various feature maps created based on the improved differential geometry measures for more effective cMesh head models. As performance indices, correlation coefficient (CC), root mean squared error (RMSE), relative error (RE), and the quality of cMesh triangle elements are used. The results show that there is a significant variation according to the characteristics of specific feature maps on cMesh generation, and offer additional choices of feature maps to yield more effective and efficient generation of cMeshes. We believe that cMeshes with specific and improved feature map generation schemes should be useful in the FEA of bioelectromagnetic problems.

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