Nuss Surgical Planning System for the Symmetric Funnel Chest

• Main Authors: Y.H.Yang, 楊宇軒
• Other Authors: Shu-Yen Wan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/42969475567163167884

碩士 === 長庚大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 95 === In the Nuss operation to reshape the funnel chest, the successful rate can be improved if the time of adjusting the length and curvature of the correction board is minimized. Further, it is always the patients’ desire to foresee the post-surgery chest shape in advance. The current implementation of the Nuss operation is manual in most part: acquisition of the 1:1 Computed Tomography (CT) images, superimposition with thin paper and taking measurement to perform surgical planning, production and adjustment of the correction board by manual bending to fit the projected chest shape. The proposed work is to develop a computer-aided system to help the physician construct a three-dimensional model from a series of CT images, predict and interactively adjust the expected correction board before surgery, and perform post-surgery simulation.