Automated Tool to Generate Thoracolumbar Spine Patient-Specific FE Models by Morteza Rasouligandomani, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.
Adult Spine deformity (ASD) is introduced as sagittal/frontal misalignment of the vertebral column. Computational approaches, like Finite Element (FE) have been proposed as effective tools to explore the aetiology or the treatment of ASD, through biomechanical simulations. We share a repository of 16807 FE models with different spine morphologies. To generate these models, a Statistical Shape Model (SSM), is built and is used to adapt a FE structured mesh template for both the bone and the soft tissues, using mesh morphing. Then, the SSM deformation fields allows the personalization of the mean structured FE model, based on sagittal balance measurements.
