Computational Biomechanics for Medicine

Prof. Karol Miller is one of the world’s most frequently cited researchers in biomechanics of the brain and soft tissue biomechanics. Prof. Miller founded MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop series in 2006 and Springer’s Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Book series in 2009. He established Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory at The University of Western Australia in 2002 and has been its director since then. Prof. Miller has held many distinguished appointments, e.g. von Karman Fellowship at RWTH Aachen University, Visiting Professorships at Harvard, Leverhulme Professorship in UK, Honorary Distinguished Professorship at Cardiff University and Senior Ogden Fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin. Among his many awards are Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, NVIDIA GPU Computing Champion Award and Simulation Industry Association Australia Award.Prof. Adam Wittek started his academic career at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth, Western Australia, Australia in 2004 after 6 years in car crash injury analysis and prevention industrial research in Japan at Toyota Central R&D Laboratories and Japan Automobile Research Institute. Since 2004 he has been a Deputy Director of Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory at the UWA. He has been an editor of Springer’s Computational Biomechanics for Medicine book series and co-organiser of MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop since 2010. His research contributions include computational biomechanics for surgical simulation, biomechanics for injury prevention and car safety, and numerical algorithms.Prof. Magdalena Kobielarz is a Deputy Director of Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Wroclaw, Poland. Her main research interests include biomechanics of soft tissues, effects of inter-subject differences and adaptation on soft tissue biomechanical properties, and experimental methods in biomechanics. Since 2022 Prof. Kobielarz has been organiser of MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop and editor of Springer’s Computational Biomechanics for Medicine book series. Prof. Kobielarz is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of Acta of Bioengineering and Biomechanics.Dr. Anju R. Babu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (India). She has worked in the field of biomechanics since 2009. In 2015 she received her Ph.D. in biomechanics from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. She has postdoctoral research experience from the Technical University of Graz (Austria) and the University of Oklahoma (USA). Dr. Babu has been actively involved in the MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop series. She has been part of the organisers of the workshop since 2023 and is currently serving as a co-editor for Springer’s Computational Biomechanics for Medicine book series.

• Part I Keynote Lectures.- To Measure Is To Know: Quantitative Imaging Is the Future of Diagnostic Radiology.- Brain Atlases With Fast Warping For Neurosurgery and Stroke.- Part II Biomechanical Analysis of Surgical Procedures, Prostheses and Image-based Diagnostics.- In-silico simulation of obstetric forceps placement using the Hilber-Hughes-Taylor implicit integration method with contact constraints.- A framework for CT-guided robotic biopsy: System validation and a physics-informed neural network for inverse kinematics.- Analysis of the influence of material selection on the mechanical properties of the prosthetic foot.- Generating non-melanoma skin cancer histopathology images using latent diffusion representation learning.- Part III Solid and Fluid (Bio-) Mechanics.- Material characterisation in pre-deformed configurations: Equilibrium-based loss and consistent linearisation.- Impact of geometric uncertainty on the computation of abdominal aortic aneurysm wall strain.- Mechanical behaviour of brain-skull interface (meninges) under shear loading through experiment and finite element modelling: Preliminary results.- On the appropriateness of linear stress recovery in biomechanical analysis of abdominal aortic aneurysm.- Simulation of mitral paravalvular leak with respect to hematocrit.