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Ítem Creation of a three-dimensional model of the mandible and the TMJ in vivo by means of the finite element method.(Quintessenz Verlags GmbH, 2002-04-01) Castaño MC; Zapata U; Pedroza A; Jaramillo JD; Roldán S; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Bioingeniería GIB (CES – EAFIT)The aim of this study was to develop a three-dimensional finite element model of the mandible, including its TMJ. The model consisted of 7942 nodes and 41,010 elements, which were obtained from a convergence test, done to minimize the result error. It included cancellous and cortical bone, periodontal ligament, masticatory muscles (masseters, temporalis, lateral and internal pterygoids), teeth and the articular disk. All characteristics such as dental, mandibular, and muscle geometry were obtained from a computerized tomography (CT) of a living person. CT sections were scanned and digitized with a CAD software program. After images were adequately assembled, a vertical tracing was done which allowed the definition of a three-dimensional mesh. Modeling of teeth was carried out independently and the periodontal ligament was later included, limiting the alveolar area. Muscles were modeled based on flat-scale photographs and total muscle force was distributed in multiple vectors. The articular disk was generated having 2 mm of thickness with the combination of spring-type (axial stiffness) and gap-type (contact) elements. The model was then analyzed with finite element method (FEM) software where a mesh was generated and values for Poisson's ratio, elasticity, and shear modulus were assigned. These were orthotropic for cancellous and cortical bone, and isotropic for dentin, periodontal ligament, articular disk, and temporal bone. The boundary conditions were defined restricting the nodes on the periphery of the temporal bone. It was therefore possible to generate a three-dimensional finite element model based on information obtained in vivo.Ítem Digital material laboratory: Wave propagation effects in open-cell aluminium foams(Elsevier, 2012-09) Saenger, E.H.; Uribe, D.; Jänicke, R.; Ruíz, O.; Steeb, H.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEThis paper is concerned with numerical wave propagation effects in highly porous media using digitized images of aluminum foam -- Starting point is a virtual material laboratory approach -- The Aluminum foam microstructure is imaged by 3D X-ray tomography -- Effective velocities for the fluid-saturated media are derived by dynamic wave propagation simulations -- We apply a displacement-stress rotated staggered fnite-difference grid technique to solve the elastodynamic wave equation -- The used setup is similar to laboratory ultrasound measurements and the computed results are in agreement with our experimental data -- Theoretical investigations allow to quantify the influence of the interaction of foam and fluid during wave propagation – Together with simulations using an artificial dense foam we are able to determine the tortuosity of aluminum foamÍtem Estimation of large domain Al foam permeability by Finite Difference methods(WILEY-VCH Verlag, 2013) Osorno, María; Steeb, Holger; Uribe, David; Ruíz, Óscar; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEClassical methods to calculate permeability of porous media have been proposed mainly for high density (e.g. granular) materials -- These methods present shortcomings in high porosity, i.e. high permeability media (e.g. metallic foams) -- While for dense materials permeability seems to be a function of bulk properties and occupancy averaged over the volume, for highly porous materials these parameters fail to predict it -- Several authors have attacked the problem by solving the Navier-Stokes equations for the pressure and velocity of a liquid flowing through a small domain (Ωs) of aluminium foam and by comparing the numerical results with experimental values (prediction error approx. 9%) -- In this article, we present calculations for much larger domains (ΩL) using the Finite Difference (FD) method, solving also for the pressure and velocity of a viscous liquid flowing through the Packed Spheres scenario -- The ratio Vol(ΩL)/Vol(Ωs) is around 103 -- The comparison of our results with the Packed Spheres example yields a prediction error of 5% for the intrinsic permeability -- Additionally, numerical permeability calculations have been performed for Al foam samples -- Our geometric modelling of the porous domain stems from 3D X-ray tomography, yielding voxel information, which is particularly appropriate for FD -- Ongoing work concerns the reduction in computing times of the FD method, consideration of other materials and fluids, and comparison with experimental dataÍtem Geometric and numerical modeling for porous media wave propagation(2014) Uribe, D.; Osorno, M.; Steeb, H.; Saenger, E.H.; Ruíz, O.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEDetermining hydro-mechanical properties of porous materials present a challenge because they exhibit a more complex behaviour than their continuous counterparts -- The geometrical factors such as pore shape, length scale and occupancy play a definite role in the materials characterization -- On the other hand, computational mechanics calculations for porous materials face an intractable amount of data -- To overcome these difficulties, this investigation propose a workflow (Image segmentation, surface triangulation and parametric surface fitting) to model porous materials (starting from a high-resolution industrial micro-CT scan) and transits across different geometrical data (voxel data, cross cut contours, triangular shells and parametric quadrangular patches) for the different stages in the computational mechanics simulations -- We successfully apply the proposed workflow in aluminum foam -- The various data formats allow the calculation of the tortuosity value of the material by using viscoelastic wave propagation simulations and poroelastic investigations -- Future work includes applications for the geometrical model such as boundary elements and iso-geometrical analysis, for the calculation of material propertiesÍtem A new evaluation framework and image dataset for keypoint extraction and feature descriptor matching(2013-02) Barandiaran, Iñigo; Cortes, Camilo; Nieto, Marcos; Graña, Manuel; Ruíz, Óscar E.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEKey point extraction and description mechanisms play a crucial role in image matching, where several image points must be accurately identified to robustly estimate a transformation or to recognize an object or a scene -- New procedures for keypoint extraction and for feature description are continuously emerging -- In order to assess them accurately, normalized data and evaluation protocols are required -- In response to these needs, we present a (1) new evaluation framework that allow assessing the performance of the state-of-the-art feature point extraction and description mechanisms, (2) a new image dataset acquired under controlled affine and photometric transformations and (3) a testing image generator -- Our evaluation framework allows generating detailed curves about the performance of different approaches, providing a valuable insight about their behavior -- Also, it can be easily integrated in many research and development environments -- The contributions mentioned above are available on-line for the use of the scientific communityÍtem Numerical estimation of Carbonate properties using a digital rock physics workflow(2014) Osorno, M.; Uribe, D.; Saenger, E.H.; Madonna, C.; Steeb, H.; Ruíz, Ó.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEDigital rock physics combines modern imaging with advanced numerical simulations to analyze the physical properties of rocks -- In this paper we suggest a special segmentation procedure which is applied to a carbonate rock from Switzerland -- Starting point is a CTscan of a specimen of Hauptmuschelkalk -- The first step applied to the raw image data is a nonlocal mean filter -- We then apply different thresholds to identify pores and solid phases -- Because we are aware of a nonneglectable amount of unresolved microporosity we also define intermediate phases -- Based on this segmentation determine porositydependent values for the pwave velocity and for the permeability -- The porosity measured in the laboratory is then used to compare our numerical data with experimental data -- We observe a good agreement -- Future work includes an analytic validation to the numerical results of the pwave velocity upper bound, employing different filters for the image segmentation and using data with higher resolutionÍtem El problema de tomografía local utilizando wavelets(Universidad EAFIT, 2012) Díaz Ossa, Wilmar A.; Vacca González, Harold; Villegas Gutiérrez, Jairo AlbertoLa Tomografía local, llamada también tomografía interior, está dentro de los denominados problemas inversos. Este consiste en recuperar los valores de una imagen (función), en alguna región de interés, conociendo las proyecciones de rectas que atraviesan una región de estudio en la imagen (función). Debido a que la teoría de Wavelets es una alternativa que permite representar una señal en un espacio de tiempo-frecuencia, facilita el procesamiento local de señales no estacionarias. Lo anterior, es propicio en este proyecto, ya que, además de poder descomponer los datos de una imagen en coeficientes de altas y bajas frecuencias para su análisis; la transformada Wavelet de f puede ser recuperada localmente desde proyecciones locales. En este trabajo, se estudian y se aplican las transformadas que intervienen en el problema interior de tomografía local. Se describe y aplica el denominado Análisis Multirresolución y se utilizan bases de wavelets biortogonales para la localización y solución de dicho problema.Ítem Real-time volume rendering and tractography visualization on the web(2012) Congote, John; Novo, Esther; Kabongo, Luis; Ginsburg, Dan; Gerhard, Stephan; Pienaar, Rudolph; Ruíz, Óscar E.; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEIn the field of computer graphics, Volume Rendering techniques allow the visualization of 3D datasets, and specifically, Volume Ray-Casting renders images from volumetric datasets, typically used in some scientific areas, such as medical imaging -- This article aims to describe the development of a combined visualization of tractography and volume rendering of brain T1 MRI images in an integrated way -- An innovative web viewer for interactive visualization of neuro-imaging data has been developed based on WebGL -- This recently developed standard enables the clients to use the web viewer on a wide range of devices, with the only requirement of a compliant web-browser -- As the majority of the rendering tasks take place in the client machine, the effect of bottlenecks and server overloading are minimized -- The web application presented is able to compete with desktop tools, even supporting high graphical demands and facing challenges regarding performance and scalability -- The developed software modules are available as open source code and include MRI volume data and tractography generated by the Diffusion Toolkit, and connectivity data from the Connectome Mapping Toolkit -- Our contribution for the Volume Web Viewer implements early ray termination step according to the tractography depthmap, combining volume images and estimated white matter fibers -- Furthermore, the depthmap system extension can be used for visualization of other types of data, where geometric and volume elements are displayed simultaneouslyÍtem Recuperación de imágenes tomográficas con ruido aplicando Wavelets(Universidad EAFIT, 2014) Burgos Díaz, Jaime Alfredo; Higuera Aparicio, José Manuel; Villegas Gutiérrez, Jairo AlbertoÍtem Robust CT to US 3D-3D Registration by Using Principal Component Analysis and Kalman Filtering(2016-07) Echeverría, Rebeca; Cortes, Camilo; Bertelsen, Alvaro; Macia, Ivan; Ruíz, Óscar E.; Flórez, Julián; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAEAlgorithms based on the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) have been proposed as an alternative for registration of point clouds obtained from vertebral ultrasound (US) and computerised tomography (CT) scans, effectively handling the US limited depth and low signaltonoise ratio -- Previously proposed methods are accurate, but their convergence rate is considerably reduced with initial misalignments of the datasets greater than or 30 mm -- We propose a novel method which increases robustness by adding a coarse alignment of the datasets’ principal components and batchbased point inclusions for the UKF -- Experiments with simulated scans with full coverage of a single vertebra show the method’s capability and accuracy to correct misalignments as large as and 90 mm -- Furthermore, the method registers datasets with varying degrees of missing data and datasets with outlier points coming from adjacent vertebraeÍtem Volume Ray Casting in WebGL(Intech Open, 2012) Congote, John; Kabongo, Luis; Moreno, Aitor; Segura, Alvaro; Beristain, Andoni; Posada, Jorge; Ruíz, Oscar; Universidad EAFIT. Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica; Laboratorio CAD/CAM/CAE