A Soft Tissue Acupuncture Model Based on Mass-Spring Force Net

Xiaorui Zhang; Tong Xu; Wei Sun; Jiali Duan; Sunil Jha

doi:10.32604/cmc.2021.018182

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A Soft Tissue Acupuncture Model Based on Mass-Spring Force Net

Xiaorui Zhang^1,2,*, Tong Xu¹, Wei Sun², Jiali Duan¹, Sunil Kumar Jha³
1 Jiangsu Engineering Center of Network Monitoring, Engineering Research Center of Digital Forensics, Ministry of Education, School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
2 Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology (CICAEET), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
3 Faculty of Information Technology, University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow, 35-225, Poland
* Corresponding Author: Xiaorui Zhang. Email:

Computers, Materials & Continua 2021, 69(1), 727-745. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.018182

Received 28 February 2021; Accepted 02 April 2021; Issue published 04 June 2021

Abstract

In the simulation of acupuncture manipulation, it is necessary to accurately capture the information of acupuncture points and particles around them. Therefore, a soft tissue modeling method that can accurately track model particles is needed. In this paper, a soft tissue acupuncture model based on the mass-spring force net is designed. MSM is used as the auxiliary model and the SHF model is combined. SHF is used to establish a three-layer soft tissue model of skin, fat, and muscle, and a layer of the MSM based force network is covered on the surface of soft tissue to realize the complementary advantages and disadvantages of spherical harmonic function and MSM. In addition, a springback algorithm is designed to simulate the springback phenomenon of soft tissue skin during acupuncture. The evaluation results show that the soft tissue acupuncture modeling method based on mass-spring force net can effectively simulate the springback phenomenon of soft tissue surface during acupuncture surgery, and has good comprehensive performance in the application of virtual acupuncture surgery simulation.

Keywords

Mass-spring model; puncture simulation; virtual surgery; soft tissue simulation

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X. Zhang, T. Xu, W. Sun, J. Duan and S. Kumar Jha, "A soft tissue acupuncture model based on mass-spring force net," Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 69, no.1, pp. 727–745, 2021.

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