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FEMONUM:
A Framework for Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling from Ante-Natal Imaging Data

Juan Pablo de la Plata Alcalde, Jeremie Anquez, Lazar Bibin, Tamy Boubekeur, Elsa Angelini and Isabelle Bloch
Eurographics 2011 - Honorable Mention of the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2011

FEMONUM

Abstract

Anatomical models of pregnant women can be used in several applications such as numerical dosimetry to assess the potential effects of electromagnetic fields on biological tissues, or medical simulations for delivery planning. Recent advances in medical imaging have enabled the generation of realistic and detailed models of human beings. This paper describes FEMONUM, a complete methodological framework for the construction of pregnant woman models based on medical images and their segmentation. FEMONUM combines several computer graphics methods, such as surface reconstruction and physics-based computer animation to model and deform pregnant women abdomens, to simulate different fetal positions and sizes and also different morphologies of the mother, represented with a synthetic woman body envelope. A set of 16 models, anatomically validated by clinical experts, is presented and is made available online to the scientific community. These models include detailed information on the utero-fetal units and cover different gestational stages with various fetal positions.
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More information on the FEMONUM project here.
BibTex Reference:
   @inproceedings{Delaplata:2011:FEMONUM,
       author = {Juan Pablo de la Plata Alcalde, Jeremie Anquez, Lazar Bibin, Tamy Boubekeur, Elsa Angelini and Isabelle Bloch},
       title = {FEMONUM: A Framework for Whole Body Pregnant Woman Modeling from Ante-Natal Imaging Data},
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eurographics 2011 Medical Prize Awards},
       year = {2011},
   }

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